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Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV

Alan Schroeder

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Paper, 384 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14105-5
$27.00 / £18.50

second edition
June, 2008
Cloth, 384 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14104-8
$85.00 / £58.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Preproduction

Chapter One: The Predebate Debate

Chapter Two: Strategy and Preparation

Chapter Three: Predebate News Coverage

Part II: Production

Chapter Four: The Debaters

Chapter Five: The Questioners

Chapter Six: The Productions

Part III: Postproduction

Chapter Seven: Postdebate News Coverage

Chapter Eight: The Audience

Conclusion: The Future of Presidential Debates

Notes

References

Schedule of Televised Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates: 1960-1996

Index

Related Subjects

About the Author

Alan Schroeder, an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University, has written extensively about the relationship between presidential politics and the media. He has also worked as a journalist, television producer, and diplomat.

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