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Hail to the Candidate: Presidential Campaigns from Banners to Broadcasts
Hail to the Candidate Presidential Campaigns from Banners to Broadcasts
Author: Keith E. Melder
From the age of Washington on, voting our presidents in has been a quintessential American ritual, a tradition one observer has called the "longest folk festival in the world."  Hail to the Candidate details two hundred years of presidential campaigns, chronicling the changing character of American electioneering and disp...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781560981787
ISBN-10: 1560981784
Publication Date: 5/1992
Pages: 212
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Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Tracing the history of presidential images from the first, sedate campaign of George Washington to the video images of Ronald Reagan and George Bush (the first one), the book focuses on political-party appeals to women, and on pollsters, media specialists, and TV to describe the ever-changing political race to become president.


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