LEADER 04547nam 22006013 450 001 9910838239303321 005 20230629223602.0 010 $a1-62922-045-0 010 $a1-62922-021-3 035 $a(CKB)4900000000556400 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6733514 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6733514 035 $a(OCoLC)1273973490 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000000556400 100 $a20220404d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTrue Tales from the Campaign Trail, Vol. 2 $eStories Only Political Consultants Can Tell 210 1$aAshland :$cUniversity of Akron Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (267 pages) 225 1 $aThe Bliss Institute Series 311 $a1-62922-017-5 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Strother Stories -- Dedication -- Sound Problem -- That Cadillac Don't Run on Water -- A Million Dollar Campaign -- Losing Papa Brock -- Please Don't Kill a Reporter -- Buick and Beer -- Good Old Boy with Bad Habits -- Protecting the Institution -- Old Friends Conduct Politics -- Gary Hart Makes a Call -- Gary Hart Makes a Decision -- Gary Hart is Set Up -- Mark of a Losing Campaign -- Where Credit is Due -- Crazy -- Dwarf Luck -- II. Campaigns -- Firing a Candidate -- Signs, Wires, Hats, Gloves-and a Jacket -- Mr. Ed Talks Again -- The Louisiana Way of Doing Business -- The Best 300 I Ever Spent -- Candidates Say the Darndest Things -- The NAACP Tournament -- American Joe -- Radon Ramble -- Debating the Debate -- A Question of Timing -- Money, Mistakes, and Timing -- Fired on the Spot -- As Luck Would Have It -- You're Running Against Whom? -- Making a Contribution -- Who are My Friends? -- Surprise! -- Hotel Roosevelt -- Bill Randle, Mr. Scandal -- The Big Three -- III. Beginnings and Endings -- I Got Here as Fast as I Could -- Best Decisions -- How I Got Started in Politics -- Innovation and Revenge -- When I Caught the Bug -- Job Interview -- Serendipity -- Getting Started in Politics -- My First Political Job -- Beres, Not Perez -- A Wakeup Moment -- Queen Elizabeth and the Bottle of Cheap Gin -- The Agony of Defeat -- IV. Politics -- The Mummers Parade -- Perils of Legislating -- Calling the Shot -- Bloomingdales, Yankee Stadium, and the Supreme Court -- Hardball Politics -- Softball Politics -- "The Right Staff" and "The Amazing Metz" -- Laurel and Hardy -- Zoo Plane -- Carter, Mineta, and Me -- Good Morning, Palm Beach -- The Governor is Gay -- V. Personalities -- Why Not, Barack? -- Dick Morris -- Be Kind to Dogs-and Vote Democratic -- Roger Stone -- How Not to Make a Deal. 327 $aMe and bin Laden -- Ed Koch -- Bella Abzug -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Robert Morgenthau -- Knowing John Glenn -- Zero G's and Feeling Fine -- Too Funny to Run -- I Don't Know If I Have Alzheimer's or Not -- As Grave a Thing as Any -- Speechless -- About the Contributors. 330 $aTrue Tales from the Campaign Trail, Volume 2 is a compilation of great campaign anecdotes from experienced political consultants, Democratic and Republican, and other great storytellers. Many of the stories are funny. Many of the stories give you a behind-the-scenes view of what happens in campaigns when the camera is off and the reporters have put down their laptops, and all of these stories are stories that only an insider could tell. Anyone with any curiosity about how political campaigns are run and won will enjoy this book. 410 4$aThe Bliss Institute Series 517 $aTrue Tales From the Campaign Trail, Vol. 2 606 $aPolitical campaigns$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical consultants$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical campaigns$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01069212 606 $aPolitical consultants$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01069231 606 $aPolitics and government$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01919741 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aAnecdotes.$2fast 608 $aAnecdotes.$2lcgft 615 0$aPolitical campaigns 615 0$aPolitical consultants 615 7$aPolitical campaigns. 615 7$aPolitical consultants. 615 7$aPolitics and government. 700 $aAustin$b Jerry$01662051 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838239303321 996 $aTrue Tales from the Campaign Trail, Vol. 2$94135616 997 $aUNINA