Debating Our Destiny: Presidential Debate Moments That Shaped History

Description

DEBATING OUR DESTINY: PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE MOMENTS THAT SHAPED HISTORY provides a unique and in-depth look at the history of the presidential debates and their importance to the U.S. election process. This book from MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, producer of the PBS Newshour, features excerpts of Jim Lehrer's exclusive interviews with nearly every presidential and vice-presidential candidate between 1976 and 2004. It is filled with fascinating information for all readers, including students of political science, government, history, civics, journalism and communications. Interviews include: President George H.W. BushPresident George W. BushPresident Jimmy CarterVice President Dick CheneyPresident Bill ClintonSenator Bob DoleGovernor Michael DukakisSenator John EdwardsPresident Gerald FordSenator John KerrySenator Joe LiebermanVice President Walter MondaleVice President Dan QuaylePresident Ronald Reagan The book also includes original interviews with noted historians, debate moderators, and the executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates: Michael BeschlossJanet BrownGwen IfillJim LehrerRichard Norton SmithMargaret WarnerJudy WoodruffContent:Foreword by Jim Lehrer Chapter 1 - Do Debates Matter?Chapter 2 - Style vs. SubstanceChapter 3 - Debates in the Television AgeChapter 4 - Do Debates Change Elections?Chapter 5 - Do Vice-Presidential Debates Matter?Chapter 6 - ModeratorsChapter 7 - Presidential Primary DebatesChapter 8 - The Future of Debates Questions to Consider (by chapter)

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Similar books

• 

  Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

  By The Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Kathleen Hall Jamieson Dean, City University of New York, Department of Speech Baruch College David S. Birdsell Assistant Professor

  ... Department of Speech Baruch College David S. Birdsell Assistant Professor, City University of New York ... Whenever reporters do the job of panelists, observes David Broder, "we inject ourselves into the campaign . . . and become ...

• 

  Politeness in Presidential Debates: Shaping Political Face in Campaign Debates from 1960 to 2004

  By William O. Dailey, Edward A. Hinck, Shelly S. Hinck

  Tannenbaum, P., Greenberg, B., & Silverman, F. (1962). Candidate images. In S. Kraus (Ed.), The great debates: Background, perspective, effects (pp. 271-288). Blooming- ton: Indiana University Press. Tiemens, R. K. (1978).

• 

  Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate

  By Kathleen Hall Jamieson, David S. Birdsell

  Current, p. 61; Wiltse, v. I, p. xiii. Current, pp. 61-62. Wiltse, v. I, p. xiii. Basler, v. I, p. 170. For a complete discussion of the arguments used, see Zarefsky, pp. 162—84. Johannsen, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, p. 50. Ibid., p.

• 

  Presidential Debates

  By Phil Corso

  This book outlines the history and background that make these debates so important to the American political process.

• 

  The Debate Book

  By Ron Faucheux

  The Debate Book