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Tension City: Inside The Presidential Debates, From Kennedy-Nixon To Obama-McCain (2011)

by Jim Lehrer(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1400069173 (ISBN13: 9781400069170)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Random House Publishing Group

review 1: I listened to this book. As it happens listening is best, assuming this appears in a print version. Because Lehrer not only moderated many presidential debates but interviewed participants years later for a historical project, the recorded version often includes either the voices from the debates or the interviews. There is also a lot about how Lehrer approached the debates and his craft which is fascinating and informative.
review 2: This was a very interesting book. I learned a lot about the importance of presidential debates, something that I knew little about before. I had never known how much thought goes into every aspect of a debate from the venue to the topic to the moderator to the participants. Further, I could never have anticipated how much effor... moret is involved on the part of the moderator and how much time goes into crafting a question and creating a debate with a flow where true dialogue occurs. This book was educational, but often times bland and read a bit like a text book only broken up by the occasional personal anecdote. less

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