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Books : The Boys on the BusIn association with Amazon.comby: Timothy Crouse  List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780812968200 ISBN: 0812968204 Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: August 12, 2003 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Release Date: August 12, 2003 Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks Sales Rank: 63670 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Cheap booze. Flying fleshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols. Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse hopscotched the country with both the Nixon and McGovern campaigns and witnessed the birth of modern campaign journalism. The Boys on the Bus is the raucous story of how American news got to be what it is today. With its verve, wit, and psychological acumen, it is a classic of American reporting. Amazon.com Review: Political spin-doctoring has become something of an art form in the last few decades. It was less artful in the early years of the information age, and Crouse's entertaining look at the attempts of both the Nixon and McGovern '72 campaign staffs to control the media seems almost comical, so poor were they at the image-and-sound bite manipulation that now defines our politics. Crouse is a serious-minded journalist, however, and his firsthand report on how political news is made and shaped remains important reading. Check out Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 for a more madcap view of the same matters. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Interesting, dated look at Political ReportingTimothy Crouse was one of the first to report on the pack journalism covering a Presidential campaign. Readers ride along on crowded busses during the 1972 campaign, witnessing press personalities like Hunter S. Thompson, R. W. Apple, Ted White, etc., and noting their strengths and inefficiencies. The book is partly about politics, but more about the life of pack jounralism. The book begins in the snows of New Hampshire as early-favorite Ed Muskie fades and George McGovern surges to the Democratic ... Read More Rating:  - on the campaign trailCrouse details life on the campaign trail, the network of people working together and against eachother in the world of politics. This book is a little dated now but a decent read for anyone interested in political journalism. Rating:  - Sleepless In...Where Are We?If you wonder how folks like Steve Inskeep at NPR can sound so refreshing, hour after hour, getting up before the crack of dawn, then wonder how the reporters assigned to cover the '08 presidential election are going to file timely, accurately and perhaps with insight as the bus horn beeps (or more likely, airplane propeller whirrs) incessantly. Like no other "inside" piece I've read, Crouse's work paints a textured if somewhat disturbing portrait of a uniformly-messaged, sleep-deprived and occasionally ... Read More Rating: - Two made a huge crowd in Nixon's campaignTimothy Crouse covered the 1972 presidential campaign. It was a lousy campaign. George McGovern stoodn't any chance against president Richard Nixon. Nixon refused being engaged in any campaigning at all. He seemed to deny that in an election even the president of the United States submits himself to the jury of the America voters. It must have been a frustrating campaign for McGovern who honestly tried to provoke discussions between the candidates. Timothy Crouse gives us an revealing insight in the way ... Read More Rating: - Engrossing and InfluentialThe Boys on the Bus is a very entertaining look at the reporters covering the 1972 election and the system in which they worked in. If you want to know how the press room in the White House smelled this is your book. If you want to know how reporters interact with each other after the press conference ends this is your book. In addition, Crouse offers great portraits of important journalists covering politics in that era, many of which are still working or known today - David Broder and Bob Novak would ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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