Diary of a Dark Horse: The 1980 Anderson Presidential Campaign - Hardcover

Bisnow, Mark

9780809311149: Diary of a Dark Horse: The 1980 Anderson Presidential Campaign

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809311143 ISBN 13: 9780809311149

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

This is the most lucidly detailed ac�count, day-by-day and sometimes hour-by-hour, ever written on a political cam�paign. It is a fascinating and a luminous document on the high lunacy of cam�paign professionals, as they are known, and of some amateurs as well.” John Kenneth Galbraith

Dennis Farney, correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, concurs, calling Bisnow’s contemporary political chronicle First rate. An insider’s look at a presidential dark horse how he rose, why he fell. A lively, informative case study for political student and political junkie alike.”

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist An�thony Lewis notes, All those who won�dered what happened to John Anderson and his difference during the 1980 cam�paign will find many answers in Mark Bisnow’s account.”

John F. Sacks, national political corre�spondent for Time, sums up the book’s impact: Mark Bisnow’s account of the improbable presidential campaign of John B. Anderson is as fresh and as frank as was the original campaign itself. No wonder, because Bisnow was at the cen�ter of that effort from the start. This is a most valuable memoir from one of the most interesting episodes in our recent political history.”

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Mark Bisnow was press secretary and executive assistant to Congressman (and presidential candidate) John Anderson be�tween 1978 and 1980. He was considered to have been Anderson’s closest aide. He is presently a law student at Harvard.

Review:

A remarkably insightful case study that will both delight aficionados and inform scholars.” Library Journal

Mark Bisnow’s chronicle . . . is the best book to come out of the 1980 campaign, addressing in a more en�gaging and revealing manner than any other questions about the power of personality in politics, the decline of the parties, and the influence of the media.” Sidney Blumenthal, New Republic

This is the most lucidly detailed ac�count, day-by-day and sometimes hour-by-hour, ever written on a po�litical campaign. It is fascinating and a luminous document on the high lunacy of campaign professionals, as they are known, and of some ama�teurs as well.” John Kenneth Gaibraith

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.