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Divided We Stand: How Al Gore Beat George Bush and Lost the Presidency
by Roger Simon, 2001
From Amazon.com:
"Just before Election Day 2000, Al Gore figured the presidential race was his to win or lose. In the end, he did both. How did this happen?
Bestselling author Roger Simon provides the first complete look at America's most bizarre and most explosive presidential campaign — not just the final thirty-six days, but the two-year, three-way battle between George W. Bush, Al Gore, and, yes, Bill Clinton, to see who would dominate American politics.
Simon reveals how the two candidates struggled to contend with the long shadow cast by Bill Clinton and the endless psychodrama of his presidency. Both studied Clinton's precision use of politics and his beguiling employment of stagecraft, avoiding hot-button issues and trying to become, as Clinton had been, First Friend to the nation. However, while Al Gore viewed the presidential race as a job interview, George Bush viewed it as a date." |
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Show Time: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White House
by Roger Simon, 1998
From Amazon.com:
"Unless carrying the last name of Woodward or Drew, no author writes about the substance of presidential campaigns anymore. Most recent campaign chronicles, at least the readable and amusing ones, focus on the inside story of the PR pizzazz that surrounds candidates, a method Simon used in his send-up of the 1988 election (Road Show, 1990), and which Michael Lewis used in his zany portrayal of the 1996 Republican primaries (Trail Fever ). For this spin on the one-sided Clinton-Dole contest, Simon interviewed the candidates' handlers to work out the reasons Clinton was so skilled and Dole so inept a campaigner. Although hardly a revelation--Clinton was energetic and repeatedly pounded his themes through the craniums of America's TV viewers; Dole was lax and inarticulate--Simon's discoveries add up to the dispiriting conclusion (and not a newly recognized one, at that) that nothing real, other than laying camera sight lines and thinking up spinnable sound bites, occurs in presidential campaigns. Simon's wicked attraction, though, is his deconstruction of the artifice, which should keep politicos chuckling from cover to cover."
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