What makes you cast your ballot? A Presidential candidate or a good campaign? How he stands on the issues or how he stands up to the camera?
The Selling of the President is the enduring story of the 1968 campaign that wrote the script for modern Presidential politickingand how that script came to be. It introduces:
Harry Treleaven, the first adman to suggest that issues bore voters, that image is what counts
Roger Ailes, a PR man who coordinated the TV presentations that delivered the product
Frank Shakespeare, the man behind the whole campaign, who, after...
What makes you cast your ballot? A Presidential candidate or a good campaign? How he stands on the issues or how he stands up to the camera?
The Delivery Man is a thrilling and astonishing debut--a scary, fast-paced, and illuminating portrait of the MySpace generation. It is a love story set against the surreal excess of Las Vegas--and the artificial suburbs, gated communities, and freeways that surround it--where broken lives come to seek new beginnings and casinos feed the lust of tourists and residents alike. Ultra-sophisticated local kids grow up fast and burn out early. After attending college in New York, Chase returns to Vegas and is drawn into the lucrative but dangerous world of a teenage call-girl service with his...
The Delivery Man is a thrilling and astonishing debut--a scary, fast-paced, and illuminating portrait of the MySpace generation. It is a love story se...
This is the fourth edition of a work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable classic work that captures a portrait frozen in time of a raw state in turmoil during the oil boom. McGinnis went north to find out if there was anything left of the "last frontier." He found "mind-bending contradictions," as a previous publisher put it--greed, waste, addictions, and racism, among other things, that contrasted with an awesome untamed natural beauty and an honest, open, and independent spirit of the people.
This is the fourth edition of a work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable classic work that ca...
