Cheap booze. Flying fleshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols. Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the r
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English Pages ix, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of illustrations : illustrations Year 2013;2003
Table of contents :
Covering the primaries and conventions --
On the bus --
Coming to power --
The Muskie Three and other campaign reporters --
The heavies --
More heavies --
The newsweeklies --
Television --
Covering Nixon's campaign --
Nixon before the White House --
The old squeeze play --
Divided they fall --
Nixon's campaign --
Agnew's campaign --
Watergate --
Covering McGovern's campaign --
Chafing at the rules --
The Black Hills --
Calling it from 30,000 feet --
The last days.