The Selling of the President
by McGinniss, Joe
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- ISBN 10
- 014003191X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140031911
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What makes you cast your ballot? A Presidential candidate or a good campaign? How he stands on the issues or how he stands up to the camera? The Selling of the President is the enduring story of the 1968 campaign that wrote the script for modern Presidential politickingand how that script came to be. It introduces: Harry Treleaven, the first adman to suggest that issues bore voters, that image is what counts Roger Ailes, a PR man who coordinated the TV presentations that delivered the product Frank Shakespeare, the man behind the whole campaign, who, after eighteen years at CBS, cast the image that sold America a President And the candidate, Richard Nixon himselfa politician running on television for the highest office in the land In his introduction, Joe McGinniss discusses whyunfortunatelyhis classic book is as pertinent today to understanding our political culture as it was the year it was published.
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- Title
- The Selling of the President
- Author
- McGinniss, Joe
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 014003191X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140031911
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Politics/American Politics/President Richard Nixon/Presidential Elections/American Studies Politics & Government; Presidential Elections; President Richard Nixon; American Studies; United States; History. Unbranded ISBN: 014003191X EAN: 9780
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