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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The White House
Charles Osgood
Humor, Blunders, And Other Oddities From The Presidential Campaign Trail
Hyperion
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
256 pages ISBN: 1401322298 EAN: 9781401322298 Hardcover
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Humor | Non-Fiction Political
"If you are one of that benighted handful of people who
isn't wise to Charles Osgood's incisive and humorous look at
the foibles of your fellow men, here is your chance to catch
up. Try not to foul up again!" --Walter Cronkite
Charles Osgood, one of America's favorite news
personalities, offers a hilarious 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 Way to the White
House captures the wit and humor of the campaign trail.
Culled from speeches, interviews, press conferences, as well
as articles written by and about the candidates--no source
is left untapped. From Bob Dole telling reporters after a
loss in the primary 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 a minute with gusts up to 340," to
Adlai Stevenson declaring that "If I talk over the people's
head, Ike must be talking under their feet," this is the
go-to source for campaign humor. Just when America most
needs a good laugh, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
the White House makes the seemingly endless race to the
presidency a lot more fun.
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