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Narrated by the writer, this special audiobook taking of Stress City includes exclusive interview and controversy excerpts from 1960 through 2008! "In his peaceful but extreme way, Jim Lehrer earns the trust of the major politics players of your time," records Barbara Walters. "He points out and exposes their expectations and dreams, their strengths and failures as they make an effort to put their best foot forward." From the man greatly hailed as "the Dean of Moderators" comes a lively and revealing publication that pulls back the drape on more than 40 years of televised politics debate in the us. A veteran newsman who may have presided over 11 presidential and vice-presidential debates, Jim Lehrer offers listeners a ringside chair for some of the epic politics battles of your time, losing light on all the critical turning details and rhetorical faux pas that helped determine the results of America's presidential elections-and with them the course of history. Drawing by himself experience as "the man in the middle chair", in-depth interviews with the applicants and his fellow moderators, and transcripts of key exchanges, Lehrer isolates and illuminates what he calling the "major moments" and "killer questions" that described the debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain. Quite often, these moments require the applicants themselves and are seared into our collective politics ram. Michael Dukakis stumbles terribly over a question about the loss of life penalty. Dan Quayle compares himself to John F. Kennedy once too often. Barack Obama and John McCain barely make eyes contact over the course of a 90-tiny discourse. At other times, the controversy moderators themselves become area of the story-and Lehrer will there be to provide us a backstage look at the dilemma. Peter Jennings implies surprising the applicants by suspending the carefully negotiated guidelines minutes prior to the 1988 presidential debate-to the consternation of his fellow panelists. Lehrer himself weathers a firestorm of criticism over his performance as moderator of the 2000 Bush-Gore controversy. And then there will be the excruciating moments when audio tracks lines go inactive and TelePrompTers stay dark just seconds before going on the air live in entry of a worldwide television audience of large numbers. Asked last but not least his experience as a participant in high-level televised debates, Leader George H. W. Bush memorably likened these to an nighttime in "anxiety city". In Jim Lehrer's absorbing insider consideration, we find out that truer words were never spoken.
