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Article: NO WAY TO PICK A PRESIDENT.(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- October 1, 1999
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NO WAY TO PICK A PRESIDENT By Jules Witcover Farrar, Straus anti Giroux, $26
A great campaign reporter describes what we've lost
JULES WITCOVER HAS WRITTEN A GOOD, PASSIONATE and disheartening book. It's a grand tour of everything not to race about presidential campaigns, from Dick Morris to John McLaughlin, from the Electoral College to the primary calendar, from soft money to attack ads, from canned conventions to ducked debates. It's vintage Witcover--which means strong reporting, sharp analysis, well-turned anecdotes, revealing interviews and an abiding love of the game, warts and all. Yet through it all there's a melancholy at the core of the ...