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"If you're one of this benighted handful of individuals who isn't smart to Charles Osgood's incisive and funny look at the foibles of your fellow men, here is your chance to get up. Try not to foul up again!"
--Walter Cronkite
Charles Osgood, one of America's favorite media personalities, offers a entertaining compendium of anecdotes from the last seventy years of presidential campaigns.
With anecdotes from Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, A Funny Thing Happened on the path to the White House captures the wit and humor of the plan path. Culled from speeches, interviews, press conferences, as well as articles written by and about the candidates--no source is kept untapped.
From Bob Dole revealing reporters after a loss in the principal that "I slept like a baby--every two hours I woke up and cried," and Barry Goldwater's comment that his talkative opponent Hubert Humphreys "has been clocked at 275 words one minute with gusts up to 340," to Adlai Stevenson declaring that "If I discuss over the people's mind, Ike must be communicating under their foot," this is the go-to source for plan humor.
Just when America most needs a good chuckle, A Funny Thing Happened on the path to the White House makes the seemingly endless race to the presidency much more fun.
