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An updated and illustrated compendium of mudslinging, character assassinations, and belowboard election strategies from U.S. presidential politics throughout history!Discover the dirty tricks of the covert and the sleazy in this giftable volume for American history buffs (New York Times Magazine).Covering 225plus years of smear campaigns, slanderous candidates, and bad behavior in American elections, this comprehensive history is the authoritative tour of political shadethrowing from George Washington to Barack Obama. You might think todays politicians play roughbut history reveals that dirty tricks are as American as apple pie. Let the namecalling begin! 1836: Congressman Davy Crockett accuses candidate Martin Van Buren of secretly wearing womens clothing: He is laced up in corsets! 1864: Candidate George McClellan describes his opponent, Abraham Lincoln, as nothing more than a wellmeaning baboon! 1960: Former president Harry Truman advises voters that if you vote for Richard Nixon, you ought to go to hell!Full of sleazy and shameless anecdotes from every presidential election in United States history, Anything for a Vote is a valuable reminder that history does repeat itself, lessons can be learned from the past (but usually arent), and our most famous presidents are not above reproach when it comes to the dirtiest game of allpolitical campaigning.
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An updated and illustrated compendium of mudslinging, character assassinations, and belowboard election strategies from U.S. presidential politics throughout history!Discover the dirty tricks of the covert and the sleazy in this giftable volume for American history buffs (New York Times Magazine).Covering 225plus years of smear campaigns, slanderous candidates, and bad behavior in American elections, this comprehensive history is the authoritative tour of political shadethrowing from George Washington to Barack Obama. You might think todays politicians play roughbut history reveals that dirty tricks are as American as apple pie. Let the namecalling begin! 1836: Congressman Davy Crockett accuses candidate Martin Van Buren of secretly wearing womens clothing: He is laced up in corsets! 1864: Candidate George McClellan describes his opponent, Abraham Lincoln, as nothing more than a wellmeaning baboon! 1960: Former president Harry Truman advises voters that if you vote for Richard Nixon, you ought to go to hell!Full of sleazy and shameless anecdotes from every presidential election in United States history, Anything for a Vote is a valuable reminder that history does repeat itself, lessons can be learned from the past (but usually arent), and our most famous presidents are not above reproach when it comes to the dirtiest game of allpolitical campaigning.
