Presidential Campaigns - Tapa blanda

A breezy, funny book, both accurate and entertaining. (The New Yorker)

Lively and informative, Boller's compendium of U.S. presidential campaigns will certainly appeal in an election year (Publishers Weekly)

Teddy Roosevelt was once shot in the chest before a campaign speech - but insisted on delivering his hour-and-a-half oration anyway. Thomas Jefferson's opponents charged that if he were elected the country's bibles would be confiscated. Now, in a revised and updated edition, this enlightening and endlessly entertaining book unveils the whole history of American Presidential elections from Washington to Clinton - those clamorous showdowns that have so perplexed, amused, irked, and fascinated the American people from the very beginning.