Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington : The Inside Story of a Grassroots U.S. Senate Campaign.
Title:
Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington : The Inside Story of a Grassroots U.S. Senate Campaign.
Author:
McGrath, Dennis J.
ISBN:
9780816686759
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 DREAMS AND SCHEMES: Looking to 1990 Crashing the Party -- 2 FINDING A HOME ON THE RANGE: Russian Roots Political Awakening To Minnesota Locking Up the Range -- 3 SHAPING THE AGENDA: Campaign Themes Critiquing the Eighties -- 4 MUSTERING THE CREW: First Campaign Manager The Perfect Volunteer Second Campaign Manager Focusing on the Caucuses -- 5 FERTILIZING THE GRASS ROOTS: Dialing for Delegates Passing the Hat Squaring Off with the Suits -- 6 EARNING THE ENDORSEMENT: Converting the Kaplans Labor Rallies An Anxious Hierarchy -- 7 HANDLERS AND AD MEN: Third Campaign Manager The Professionals The Ad Man The Primary Fourth Campaign Manager -- 8 WASHINGTON WOES: Cattle Call Begging in Georgetown -- 9 THE SMELL OF MONEY: The Boschwitz Machine PAC Problems Debating the Debates Looking for Rudy -- 10 CRAZY BOUNCES: The Swimming Pool Round Two "Ruddy: Zillion" The Ticket Leader Goes Down -- 11 HAND TO HAND COMBAT: Gang Warfare Boschwitz Bites Back Good Luck on Tuesday -- 12 OVER THE TOP: A Turd in the Pool The Verdict -- EPILOGUE.
Abstract:
This engaging account of Wellstone's campaign, written by two political reporters, provides a behind-the-scenes look at a memorable chapter in U.S. Senate campaign history, which saw a liberal college professor become the only Senate challenger to unseat an incumbent in 1990.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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