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Title: Presidential Campaigns by Paul F. Boller ISBN: 0-19-509730-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Objective and Informative
Comment: Paul F. Boller Jr. turned in a milestone effort with "Presidential Campaigns," combining an excellently developed historian's eye along with an objective presentation.
This informative work reads like an entertaining novel while providing all kinds of fascinating information about America's presidential campaigns from Washington to the present, from which we can learn so much about our nation's history, using famous elections as an evolutionary guide to understanding the peaks and valleys of the Ameican experience.
In that some of the subject matter is about heavy topics such as war and peace, domestic political conflict, and America during economic panics and depressions, Boller's humor is needed to lighten the heaviness and he delivers superbly. This is understandable since much of his career as an author involves books of anecdotes regarding American and British history as well as Hollywood's film world.
This is a book that crisply and entertainingly tells us so much about America, as revealed through its presidential compaigns.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mugwumps, Bull-Mooses, Fala and Others Who Made History
Comment: This classic chronicle of Presidential campaigns, from the get-go to contemporary times, has the unusual virtue of being useful either as a collection of short readable chapters - each just the right size for a daily bus or train ride - or as a reference source. Reading this in the wake of Monicagate and the Florida Recount, it's instructive to read the history of Grover Cleveland, who seems to have features of BOTH past Democratic candidates. Like Clinton, he had his scandals - fathering an illegitimate child. Like Gore, his career was rudely interrupted by an election which he won on popular votes but lost, in a hotly contested, knife-edge electoral college tally.
Rating: 4
Summary: Clear and well written
Comment: This is a well organized book full of useful facts that show how our political history has evolved over the years. Full of antdotes and trivia, the book reveals quite a bit about America. Very well condenced stories of each election. Reports things as historical facts rather than a political leaning (except for the 1988 race maybe). Overall a very good read.
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Title: Presidential Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller ISBN: 0195097319 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Presidential Inaugurations by Paul F. Jr. Boller ISBN: 0156007592 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising by Kathleen Hall Jamieson ISBN: 0195089421 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Presidential Wives by Paul F. Boller ISBN: 0195121422 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Power Plays: Win or Lose--How History's Great Political Leaders Play the Game by Dick Morris ISBN: 0060004436 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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