Campaign America '96
Subtitle: the view from the couch
By: William O'Rourke.
Publisher: Marlowe & Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1996.; Presidential candidates -- United States.; Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.; Voting -- United States.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
Description: Covering the election year from his couch, William O'Rourke reproduces and dissects the characters and issues awash in the ever flowing media stream: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, Internet, phone and fax, conversation, and popular entertainment. "Every campaign gets the book it deserves," O'Rourke writes, "and the '96 presidential campaign deserves the one in your hand.".

Campaign America '96 reveals how the presidential campaign is consumed, not produced. Part autobiography, part chronicle, part incisive political analysis, part cultural history, Campaign America '96 parades the entire year's cast of characters across its stage.

Minor and major actors take their bows, from the ineffably nontelegenic millionaire, Steve Forbes, to the ever coy Colin Powell, to sideshow contenders like Ross Perot ("Harry Truman on Ritalin"), along with the media guys and dolls who cover them, to the final showdown between Hillary and Liddy, the First Lady and the First Nurse, and Citizen Bob and Commander-in-Chief Bill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 494-506) and index.