One of the most important political campaigns in recent history, the 2012 race for the White House set all sorts of records for fundraising, negative attacks and outright lying. Greg Mitchell, author of three acclaimed books on highly influential American political campaigns, followed the 2012 race as closely as anyone in his daily columns at The Nation and frequent posts at his popular Pressing Issues blog.Now he has produced the first book to chronicle the showdown between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney right down to Election Day--and to the aftermath, with the book now updated to mid-November. It's a unique, nearly day-by-day chronicle of the final 100 days of the race, and its aftermath, with all the high points and low points, the soaring rhetoric and the low blows, the humor and the angry outrage--which ended in a clear victory for President Obama, and many Democrats in tough Senate contests. "Tricks, Lies, and Videotape" also includes this special and extremely valuable feature: more than 500 clickable links to the key articles, videos, documents, and blog posts that drew national attention during the campaign. They're all here: from the secret Romney "47 percent video" to probing media commentary (from Paul Krugman to Charles P. Pierce). All of the most outrageous attacks are here, plus Sarah Silverman and Lena Dunham videos, Bruce Springsteen broadsides and dozens of other unusual and fun campaign stuff. Surely you will want to revisit Clint Eastwood chatting with that chair. You can click and read/view now, or months or years from now. It's a new kind of living history for journalists, activists and historians alike, from one of the nation's most respected campaign watchers and writers.Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books, including "The Campaign of the Century" (winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize), on Upton Sinclair’s highly influential race for governor of California in 1934; "Why Obama Won," and "Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady" (on the infamous Nixon-Douglas race), a New York Times Notable Book. His other books include "Atomic Cover-Up," and with Robert Jay Lifton, "Hiroshima in America" and "Who Owns Death?" Mitchell was the editor of Editor & Publisher ("the bible of the newspaper industry") from 2002 to 2009, and won nearly a dozen awards for its media coverage. Hundreds of his articles have appeared in leading magazines and newspapers and he has served as chief adviser for two award-winning documentaries.
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