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Article: Lots of facts, but not much more.(Deadlines Past Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story)(Book Review)
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- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Deadlines Past Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story
By Walter Mears Andrews McMeel 360 pages; $24.95
Walter Mears, the hall-of-fame Associated Press political writer, introduces his new memoir by reminding us, "I am a wire service man, a calling that requires writing news instantly, keeping the copy terse, and keeping yourself out of it."
Consider yourself warned.
With 46 years of journalism, 11 presidential campaigns and a Pulitzer Prize behind him, Mears doesn't and probably can't stray far from his roots as he turns to book writing. So "Deadlines Past" reads somewhat like a solid, extended wire dispatch.
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