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A review by davehershey
Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns by Joseph Cummins
3.0
Are political campaigns too mean today? Want to go back to the "good old days" when people were civil?
This book tackles such questions and answers: presidential campaigns have never been civil and there were no good old days. Well, maybe the first election when Washington ran unopposed. But that's about it.
This book is an interesting read. It is good for a skim as after a while it gets redundant, reading about election after election. Skimming it gives you the gist: people have always been vicious in campaigns.
So as the 2012 election heats up and you wish people were nicer...know elections have kind of always been this way.
This book tackles such questions and answers: presidential campaigns have never been civil and there were no good old days. Well, maybe the first election when Washington ran unopposed. But that's about it.
This book is an interesting read. It is good for a skim as after a while it gets redundant, reading about election after election. Skimming it gives you the gist: people have always been vicious in campaigns.
So as the 2012 election heats up and you wish people were nicer...know elections have kind of always been this way.