2016 Presidential Campaign Bites: 200 Practically True Things About the Presidential Candidates
By Chris Lamb
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I told a political journalist friend of mine that I was compiling the follies and absurdities of the different 2016 presidential candidates for an ebook.
“If I see any of those things, I’ll let you know,” my friend said in a dismissive tone, adding, “I’m interested in the serious things the candidates have to say.”
“If I see anything serious,” I said, “I’ll let you know.”
I have not spoken to him since.
Hundreds of people have filed a Form 2 Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Election Commission to become presidential candidates in 2016.
For every Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Jeb Bush, or Donald Trump, there is a Vermin Supreme, Edie Atkinson-Bukewihge, George Bailey, Pogo Mochello Allen-Reese, or Rick Santorum.
Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry. Where can you find out all you need to know about the different candidates?
Right here. In this book.
When a political campaign becomes a farce, traditional reporting fails us. We’re left only with farce.
This book, 2016 Presidential Campaign Bites, tells you all the mostly-true, kinda-true, and for-all-you-know-it-is-true things about the presidential candidates.
You need 2016 Presidential Campaign Bites because this campaign bites.
This book bites back.
Chris Lamb
I am a professor of journalism at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, where I teach sports journalism classes to undergraduate and graduate students and serve on the staff of the National Center for Sports Journalism. I am the author/editor of seven books, including Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball (2012); The Sound and Fury of Sarah Palin (2011); I'll Be Sober in The Morning: Great Political Comebacks, Putdowns, and Ripostes (2007); Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor (2006); Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training (2004); and Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartooning (2004). My eighth book, From Jack Johnson to LeBron James: Sports, Media, and the Color Line, will be published in January 2016. Before becoming a college professor, I worked for newspapers and magazines for ten years. Since becoming a professor, my articles and columns have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Los Angeles Times, ESPN.com, Huffington Post, etc. I have been interviewed by National Public Radio, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBS, CBS, ESPN, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, etc..I have given talks at the British Library, Duke University, George Washington University, American Film Institute, and the Negro Leagues Museum. I have twice been a Pulitzer Prize judge in the category of editorial cartooning.
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2016 Presidential Campaign Bites - Chris Lamb
2016 Presidential Campaign Bites
200 Practically True Things about the Presidential Candidates
Chris Lamb
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
2016 Presidential Campaign Bites
About the Author
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett for the cover illustration. I also would like to acknowledge The Cartoonist Group. And finally, I would like to thank the following people for their contributions: Lesly Lamb, Alex Thatcher, Marc Bona, and Lynne Sherwin.
Preface
I told a political journalist friend of mine that I was compiling the follies and absurdities of the different 2016 presidential candidates for an ebook.
If I see any of those things, I’ll let you know,
my friend said in a dismissive tone, adding, "I’m interested in