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Title: Deadlines Past: Forty Years Of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story by Walter R. Mears ISBN: 0-7407-3852-6 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Presidential Campaign Reporting At Its Best
Comment: I am a political junkie- I love to hear stories about politics and in particular the people involved. I live in New Hampshire where it used to be that every four years we would have a new Presidential campaign. Now, of course, the campaigns start as soon as the President is sworn into office. In a past life I wonder if I was a reporter on "the beat".
Walter Mears tells his stories as an AP (Associated Press) reporter for the past 40 years. From 1955 until 2001 this man's words were seen daily in every American newspaper in the country. Thus he could be said to be the most influential political reporter of his time. He is in a sense the storyteller of the past. He tells the stories of the 11 presidential campaigns that he covered. He is a fascinating man, and I have read all the material available about him and his writing and speaking.
Walter Mears graduated from Middlebury and got a job straight away with the AP. He started in Boston and reported from a pay phone that was reserved for bookies. He was soon asked to cover the Legislature in Montpelier, Vermont. He had no training, it was on the job. He was told to report on the Legislature and that is what he did. He said recently that the AP job in Vermont was the job he loved the most. He eventually moved to the big time in Washington, D.C. and it is there that he retired from the AP in 2001.
In between, Walter Mears covered all the important campaigns of the past 45 years. He has stories of JF Kennedy- " that man kept his love life secret- there is no way that the press wouldn't have talked about it if we had known- it worked for him because he didn't let anybody know". The Nixon years, the Clinton years-Vietnam and Watergate changed attitudes about government coverage- it turned from skeptical trust to suspicion and cynicism. Bill Clinton made suspicion and trust of politicians worse by his misconduct and dishonesty. American citizens fed on the assumption that politicians are not to be trusted said Mears.
In 1977 Walter Mears won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting of the 1976 Presidential Campaign. The day after he won, everyone gathered around him to see what he was going too write- as he said "The next story is the news".
Walter Mears believes in his profession, loves it. His philosophy is "Let people know what is happening and then let them decide what to do about it." He loves the politicians he covers. He believes they are honest people, and they think they are doing good things whether they are or not.
Walter Mears is a reporter who does not give biased, opininated news, and he is despondent over the news celebrities on the cable channels that think they are delivering news. This is one hell of a book. I enjoyed every page- the stories he tells and the times he has had. This man has lived his life doing what he loved! An admirable man and an admirable book. prisrob
Rating: 5
Summary: Great chronicle of presidential politics
Comment: Walter Mears crafts a compelling look at presidential politics from Kennedy to George W. Bush. His story does not contain the level of ego found in other books, and his behind the scenes stories and insights, and the history of American presidential politics, are worth a read.
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Title: City Room by Arthur Gelb ISBN: 0399150757 Publisher: Marian Wood Book Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In by Walter Shapiro ISBN: 1586481878 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Inside: A Public and Private Life by Joseph A. Califano ISBN: 1586482300 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Backstory: Inside the Business of News by Ken Auletta ISBN: 1594200009 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 25 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV by Bob Schieffer ISBN: 0399149716 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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