Jules Witcover, Author . Random $35 (848p) ISBN 978-0-375-50742-7
The Democrats are the oldest political party in the world, with a legacy stretching back to the infighting among members of George Washington's administration. Witcover's thick history devotes significant space to the party's perpetual...
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Jules Witcover, Author Johns Hopkins University Press $35 (343p) ISBN 978-0-8018-8247-0
Almost every human foible has been displayed at some point during the past half century of presidential campaigning. Candidates have lied, cheated and stolen, they've fallen (both literally and figuratively), been shot at, gone batty and been caught
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Jules Witcover, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-22303-8
A syndicated columnist for the Baltimore Sun since 1981, Witcover (The Year the Dream Died, etc.) began covering presidential elections in 1952. His critique of the state of American presidential campaigns touches all the familiar maladies: soft...
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Jules Witcover, Author, Jules Whitcover, Author Crown Publishers $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58480-4
Five of the last nine U.S. presidents first served as vice-presidents. This statistic, argues syndicated columnist Witcover, makes clear the recklessness of George Bush's choice of J. Danforth Quayle as his running mate. Most of the book is an...
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Jules Witcover, Author, Witcover, Author Grand Central Publishing $45 (564p) ISBN 978-0-446-51849-9
In a deft recycling of his earlier works (among them 85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy), Baltimore Sun political columnist Witcover has us relive the tumultuous year in which the nation came ""unglued."" Nixon and Agnew vie for the...
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