Air Wars: Television Advertising In Election Campaigns, 1952-2008, 5th Edition
Darrell M. Westis professor of political science at Brown University. He is author or coauthor of several books on the mass media and elections includingCross Talk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign(1996),The Sound of Money(1998), andCheckbook Democracy: How Money Corrupts Political Campaigns(2000). Professor West is a frequent commentator on media and elections and is the developer of the website InsidePolitics.org, which features in-depth information about state and national politics.