True Tales from the Campaign Trail, Vol. 2 : Stories Only Political Consultants Can Tell.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (267 pages)
- The Bliss Institute Series .
- The Bliss Institute Series .
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Strother Stories -- Dedication -- Sound Problem -- That Cadillac Don't Run on Water -- A Million Dollar Campaign -- Losing Papa Brock -- Please Don't Kill a Reporter -- Buick and Beer -- Good Old Boy with Bad Habits -- Protecting the Institution -- Old Friends Conduct Politics -- Gary Hart Makes a Call -- Gary Hart Makes a Decision -- Gary Hart is Set Up -- Mark of a Losing Campaign -- Where Credit is Due -- Crazy -- Dwarf Luck -- II. Campaigns -- Firing a Candidate -- Signs, Wires, Hats, Gloves-and a Jacket -- Mr. Ed Talks Again -- The Louisiana Way of Doing Business -- The Best 300 I Ever Spent -- Candidates Say the Darndest Things -- The NAACP Tournament -- American Joe -- Radon Ramble -- Debating the Debate -- A Question of Timing -- Money, Mistakes, and Timing -- Fired on the Spot -- As Luck Would Have It -- You're Running Against Whom? -- Making a Contribution -- Who are My Friends? -- Surprise! -- Hotel Roosevelt -- Bill Randle, Mr. Scandal -- The Big Three -- III. Beginnings and Endings -- I Got Here as Fast as I Could -- Best Decisions -- How I Got Started in Politics -- Innovation and Revenge -- When I Caught the Bug -- Job Interview -- Serendipity -- Getting Started in Politics -- My First Political Job -- Beres, Not Perez -- A Wakeup Moment -- Queen Elizabeth and the Bottle of Cheap Gin -- The Agony of Defeat -- IV. Politics -- The Mummers Parade -- Perils of Legislating -- Calling the Shot -- Bloomingdales, Yankee Stadium, and the Supreme Court -- Hardball Politics -- Softball Politics -- "The Right Staff" and "The Amazing Metz" -- Laurel and Hardy -- Zoo Plane -- Carter, Mineta, and Me -- Good Morning, Palm Beach -- The Governor is Gay -- V. Personalities -- Why Not, Barack? -- Dick Morris -- Be Kind to Dogs-and Vote Democratic -- Roger Stone -- How Not to Make a Deal. Me and bin Laden -- Ed Koch -- Bella Abzug -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Robert Morgenthau -- Knowing John Glenn -- Zero G's and Feeling Fine -- Too Funny to Run -- I Don't Know If I Have Alzheimer's or Not -- As Grave a Thing as Any -- Speechless -- About the Contributors.
True Tales from the Campaign Trail, Volume 2 is a compilation of great campaign anecdotes from experienced political consultants, Democratic and Republican, and other great storytellers. Many of the stories are funny. Many of the stories give you a behind-the-scenes view of what happens in campaigns when the camera is off and the reporters have put down their laptops, and all of these stories are stories that only an insider could tell. Anyone with any curiosity about how political campaigns are run and won will enjoy this book.
9781629220451
Political campaigns--United States. Political consultants--United States. United States--Politics and government.