The Candidate : : What it Takes to Win, and Hold, the White House

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Campaign juggling -- Planning for chaos -- Challengers : the search for an experienced virgin -- The challenger who couldn't lose : Hillary Clinton in 2008 -- Incumbents : regicide or more of the same -- The unbeatable incumbent : George Bush in 1992 -- Successors : lapdogs or leaders -- The successor with peace and prosperity : Al Gore in 2000 -- Teams that work -- Is this any way to pick a president?.
Explains what separates a candidate from a president-elect, looking in particular at the missteps made in George H.W. Bush's re-election bid and Al Gore and Hillary Clinton's efforts to gain the presidency.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: viii, 350 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780199922079
0199922071

SUBJECTS
Presidents -- History.
Presidential candidates -- History.
Presidential candidates -- Case studies.