Inside the presidential debates : their improbable past and promising future /

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Author / Creator:	Minow, Newton N., 1926-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Presidents -- United States -- Election. Campaign debates -- United States. Television in politics -- United States. Campaign debates. Politics and government Presidents -- Election. Television in politics. United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11186939

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Other authors / contributors:	LaMay, Craig L.
ISBN:	9780226530390 0226530396 9780226530413 0226530418 1281965987 9781281965981
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-201) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	This is an inside look into the history of America's presidential debates and the many battles - both legal and personal - that have determined who has been allowed to debate and under what circumstances. While the authors are alive to recent criticism of presidential debates, in the end they come down heavily in favour of them.
Other form:	Print version: Minow, Newton N., 1926- Inside the presidential debates. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226530413 0226530418

Table of 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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