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A History of Political Dirty Tricks: Mudslinging from the Founding Fathers to Today's Hacks

A History of Political Dirty Tricks: Mudslinging from the Founding Fathers to Today's Hacks

Thomas J. Craughwell
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It’s the height of the presidential election, and despite the public’s cry for candidates to focus on the issues, personal attacks and negative ads are everywhere. Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to a time when politics wasn’t full of dirty tricks?
The problem, of course, is that mudslinging has been around since the birth of the nation. With the exception of George Washington’s unanimous elections, presidential campaigns have always had their share of nasty business. A History of Political Dirty Tricks surveys the best of the worst, from the days of the Founding Fathers through the gilded age and up to today. Among the nefarious deeds you’ll find in its pages:

Pamphlets calling Thomas Jefferson an atheist
Accusations that Martin Van Buren wore corsets
The forged “Morey letter,” which stated that James Garfield supported Chinese immigration
Richard Nixon’s sabotage of the Paris peace talks that could have ended the Vietnam War
Robocalls about John McCain’s “other child”

Spin doctors, political hit men, opposition research, push-polls—they are all in full force in the 2016 race for the White House. A History of Political Dirty Tricks shows that this season’s campaign is just like the ones from the good ol’ days.

Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Release
September 06, 2016
ISBN
1510711961
ISBN 13
9781510711969

A History of Political Dirty Tricks: Mudslinging from the Founding Fathers to Today's Hacks

Thomas J. Craughwell
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
It’s the height of the presidential election, and despite the public’s cry for candidates to focus on the issues, personal attacks and negative ads are everywhere. Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to a time when politics wasn’t full of dirty tricks?
The problem, of course, is that mudslinging has been around since the birth of the nation. With the exception of George Washington’s unanimous elections, presidential campaigns have always had their share of nasty business. A History of Political Dirty Tricks surveys the best of the worst, from the days of the Founding Fathers through the gilded age and up to today. Among the nefarious deeds you’ll find in its pages:

Pamphlets calling Thomas Jefferson an atheist
Accusations that Martin Van Buren wore corsets
The forged “Morey letter,” which stated that James Garfield supported Chinese immigration
Richard Nixon’s sabotage of the Paris peace talks that could have ended the Vietnam War
Robocalls about John McCain’s “other child”

Spin doctors, political hit men, opposition research, push-polls—they are all in full force in the 2016 race for the White House. A History of Political Dirty Tricks shows that this season’s campaign is just like the ones from the good ol’ days.

Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Release
September 06, 2016
ISBN
1510711961
ISBN 13
9781510711969

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