| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780670021116 | | Publisher: VIKIN | | Publish Date: 8/4/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211067828 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 10.25H x 6.5L x 1.5T | | Pages: 432 |
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| | | HAYNES JOHNSON is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a long-time television commentator, and the author of the bestsellers Sleepwalking Through History and The Bay of Pigs. He teaches at the University of Maryland.
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The history-making 2008 Presidential campaign is compared by many to that other historical election, that between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960. Just as that earlier campaign provoked a bestselling historical account--THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1960, by T. H. White--the 2008 election is covered here by two astute political commentators Haynes Johnson and Dan Belz. Based on deep research and extensive interviews with those close to the campaigns of Clinton, McCain, and Obama, THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA provides insightful accounts of the bruising primaries and the major campaign. It includes a thorough overview of the issues and political contexts, along with incisive portraits of the candidates. Johnson and Belz also get off the bus to examine the country's political mood in a time of war and the changing economic circumstances that would come to dominate the election.
| Praise| "The cliché has it that history is written by the winners, so it's not surprising that THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA is complimentary to Obama and his team. What is striking is how furiously the leaks and recriminations come from the campaigns of the losers - both Clinton's and Republican John McCain's. It's juicy to get the dish on the vilified Clinton adviser Mark Penn, or see the despair of McCain staffers who try to brief Sarah Palin on the issues." - Renee Loth 09/06/2009 "THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA boldly asserts its own importance in its title, and unlike many such pronouncements, it largely delivers. Through a judicious blend of facts, anecdotes, close-ups and wide-angle shots, it retells the story of the rise of a politician who was by no means foreordained to win the presidency, but is now so ubiquitous that he has nearly trademarked the letter O." - Ted Widmer 11/08/2009 |
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