No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner - Hardcover

No Excuses; Concessions of a Serial Campaigner

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First edition. First printing [stated]. xvii, [1], 521 [5] pages. Illustrations. A Note on Methods and Sources. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: For Jackie, Mardi, and Patrick--Thank you for sharing your beach with us. With best wishes, Robert Shrum. Some staining on page edges. Robert M. "Bob" Shrum (born July 21, 1943) is the Director of the Center for the Political Future and the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the University of Southern California, where he is a Professor of the Practice of Political Science. He is a former American political consultant, who has worked on numerous Democratic campaigns. Shrum wrote the famous speech Ted Kennedy gave at the 1980 Democratic National Convention conceding to and supporting President Jimmy Carter. Shrum served as speechwriter to New York Mayor John V. Lindsay, to Senator George McGovern and to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. From the master strategist of Democratic campaigns, a witty no-holds-barred lowdown on how politics is played on the national level. Derived from a Kirkus review: A winning memoir from a high-end consultant to Democratic presidential candidates. Shrum recalls three and a half decades in the political game, where he started out in 1970 as a 26-year-old speechwriter for New York Mayor John Lindsay and then became a top and sometimes controversial strategist for a string of presidential hopefuls, from George McGovern and Dick Gephardt to Al Gore and John Kerry. After the Georgetown debate team and Harvard Law, he plunged into politics and began crafting the main Democratic messages of our time. Writing with engaging candor, he describes the rise of modern political consulting, offering incisive snapshots of such notables as Edmund Muskie; Jimmy Carter, and John Kerry. We see Shrum talking theology with Mario Cuomo, advising Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky scandal and enlisting Warren Beatty to help convince McGovern to remove a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote from the end of a speech. There are countless bright stories about friends and many clients who won election to the U.S. Senate. The book brims with speechwriting tips: Offend no one and you persuade no one. Beware of lines that sound too good not to be used-rhetoric can outpace reality. Like a symphony, he writes, a good political speech rises and rouses the audience, then falls to a quieter level, "transfixing the listeners instead of eliciting applause." A big, wonderfully readable tale certain to delight political junkies. Artikel-Nr. 79193

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