Out of Order
An incisive and boldly original critique of the news media's domination of America's political process
$47.99
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
2 August 1994
Summary
Why are our politicians almost universally perceived as liars? What made candidate Bill Clinton’s draft record more newsworthy than his policy statements? How did George Bush’s masculinity, Ronald Reagan’s theatrics with a microphone, and Walter Mondale’s appropriation of a Wendy’s hamburger ad make or break their presidential campaigns?
Ever since Watergate, says Thomas E. Patterson, the road to the presidency has led through the newsrooms, which in turn impose their own values on Am…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679755104 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679755101 |
| Author: | Thomas E. Patterson |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 1994 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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“Out of Order pulls no punches. It is a serious, challenging, controversial critique of the press as an 800-pound gorilla, an increasingly arrogant player in presidential campaigning.” – Marvin Kalb, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
About The Author
Thomas E. Patterson
Thomas E. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. For many years he taught at Syracuse University. He is the author of several books on politics and the media, including Out of Order, which won the American Political Science Association’s 2002 Doris Graber Award for the best book in the field of political communication, and The Unseeing Eye, which was named one of the fifty most influential books of the past half century in the field of public opinion by the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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