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Inside the presidential debates : their improbable past and promising future / Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay.
- Title
- Inside the presidential debates : their improbable past and promising future / Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay.
- Author
- Minow, Newton N., 1926-2023
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- LaMay, Craig L.
- Description
- xvii, 219 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This fascinating history offers, for the first time, a genuinely informative inside look into the origins of the presidential debates and the many battles--both legal and personal--that have determined who has been allowed to debate and under what circumstances.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- USA Präsident
- USA / Präsident
- Geschichte
- Since 1945
- Geschichte 1960-2004
- Geschichte 1950-2000
- Geschichte 2000-2050
- Presidents > United States > Election
- Campaign debates > United States
- Television in politics > United States
- United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989
- United States > Politics and government > 1989-
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-201) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- How Adlai Stevenson put John F. Kennedy in the White House -- Presidential debates and "equal opportunity" -- "If you're thirty-two points behind, what else are you going to do?" -- The commission on presidential debates and its critics -- The dilemma : who debates? -- How to improve the presidential debates.
- ISBN
- 9780226530413 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226530418 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007026792
- OCLC
- 152580821
- SCSB-10120035
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library