Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded

Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded

Combining primary sources with expert commentary, this timely book probes critical moments in U.S. presidential elections in the last 20th- and early 21st-centuries, empowering readers to better understand and analyze the electoral process.

• Primary sources such as speeches, advertisements, candidate platforms, press coverage, internal campaign documents, and more are presented side by side with accessibly written, expert commentary

• A contextualizing introductory essay explains the logic behind the selection of documents and pinpoints narratives that can be traced through the collection

• Novel stories about many behind-the-scenes events will engage reader interest

• Photos, quotes, artwork, slogans, commercial stills, and other illustrative campaign media help bring history alive