Inside the presidential debates [electronic resource] : their improbable past and promising future / Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay
- Author
- Minow, Newton N., 1926-2023
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages)
- Additional Creators
- LaMay, Craig L.
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- Contents
- Foreword / Varton Gregorian -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. How Adlai Stevenson put John F. Kennedy in the White House -- 2. Presidential debates and "equal opportunity" -- 3. "If you're thirty-two points behind, what else are you going to do?" -- 4. The commission on presidential debates and its critics -- 5. The dilemma : who debates? -- 6. How to improve the presidential debates -- Appendixes -- A. Memorandum of understanding between the Bush and Kerry campaigns, 2004 -- B. Negotiated agreements between the League of Women Voters and the Ford and Carter campaigns, 1976 -- C. Section 312 of the Communications Act : "Reasonable Access" for candidates for Federal Office -- D. Challenges to the CPD under Federal Election and Tax Law -- E. Broadcast debates and the First Amendment -- F. The televised presidential debates, 1960-2004 -- Notes -- Index.
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- ISBN
- 9780226530390 (electronic bk.)
0226530396 (electronic bk.) - Note
- Description based on print version record.
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-201) and index.
- Technical Details
- Mode of access: World Wide web.
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