Whose Broad Stripes And Bright Stars?

Description for WHOSE BROAD STRIPES AND BRIGHT STARS? THE TRIVIAL PURSUIT OF THE PRESIDENCY 1988 by Jack W Germond & Jules Witcover: America's premier campaign journalists Jack W Germond and Jules Witcover, have been covering national politics and presidential campaigns for thirty years. Their in-depth examinations and inside stories of America's presidential races, beginning with Kennedy/Nixon in 1960, have made them, according to the "Dallas Morning News", "the successors to Theodore White in providing the definitive campaign history." But never have their experience and analysis of a campaign been more important than now, when sound bites became the most crucial political tool, "hired guns" ran the most mean-spirited and negative campaign in modern-day American political history, and confused voters wondered what it all meant. Despite President Bush's postcampaign vision of a "kinder, gentler nation," what the authors call the "anything goes" 1988 campaign may signal a d