Out of Order by Thomas E Patterson

Out of Order by Thomas E Patterson

Why are our politicians almost universally perceived as liars? What made candidate Bill Clinton's draft record more newsworthy than his policy statements? How did George Bush's masculinity, Ronald Reagan's theatrics with a microphone, and Walter Mondale's appropriation of a Wendy's hamburger ad make or break their presidential campaigns?

Ever since Watergate, says Thomas E. Patterson, the road to the presidency has led through the newsrooms, which in turn impose their own values on American politics. The results are campaigns that resemble inquisitions or contests in which the candidates' game plans are considered more important than their goals. Lucid and aphoristic, historically informed and as timely as a satellite feed, Out of Order mounts a devastating inquest into the press's hijacking of the campaign process -- and shows what citizens and legislators can do to win it back.

Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government He was previously a distinguished professor of political science at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship. He was educated at South Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota, where he got his Ph.D., and grew up in a small Minnesota hamlet on the Iowa and South Dakota borders. Tom is the author of six books and dozens of articles on the media and elections. He is currently the director of the Vanishing Voter research at the Kennedy School of Government, which has been widely used in the media and on college campuses.

When President Bill Clinton declared that every politician and journalist should read his book, 'Out of Order,' it gained national notice. 'The Mass Media Election,' published in 1980, won a 'Choice' award for Best Academic Book, 1980-81. Another of Patterson's works, 'The Unseeing Eye' (1976), was recently named one of the fifty most influential books in the field of public opinion by the American Society for Public Opinion Research. A study of White House communication and a study of the function of the news media in Western democracies are among his ongoing projects.

Major funding from the National Science Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts have supported his research.

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ISBN 13	9780679755104
ISBN 10	0679755101
Title	Out of Order
Author	Thomas E Patterson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1994-08-02
Number of pages	336
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