Calling Elections: The History of Horse-Race Journalism

Littlewood (journalism, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) examines how and investigates why the treatment of elections as sporting events has come to overshadow reporting of the campaign as a forum for discussing ideas. He cites historical links between politics and gambling, the infusion of sports language into politics, a spoils system under which parties have a financial stake in the election outcome, scientific polling, and other factors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Politics & Social Sciences

Littlewood, Thomas B.

Social Sciences

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Written by a former congressional aide to US presidential candidate Bob Dole, this book examines the ways in which newspapers - and later television networks - have reported election results, from the early 1800s to the end of the 20th century.

<p>THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK - TO MEASURE THE PERSON AND TO EXAMINE THE BURDEN OF TRAGEDY, CIRCUMSTANTIAL AND MAN-MADE, THAT CARRIED THROUGH AN EVENTFUL PERIOD IN THE HISTORY OF THE STATE</p>

Horner of Illinois

History

Americas

Northwestern University Press

<p>A new edition of the Horner biography. This is a tragic story of political conflict and social turmoil during the Great Depression of the 1930's. The Governor of Illinois during that crisis was a former judge from Chicago - Henry Horner - whose Bohemian Jewish grandfather founded Chicago's first grocery business. A child of financial privilege, Henry was a sentimental but psychologically vulnerable idealist, a Democrat who idolized the example of Lincoln. He advocated unpopular new taxes to provide food and shelter for the unemployed. Confronted by the inevitable sectional cultural divisions between metropolitan Chicago and rural Downstate, Horner sided with the small towns where anti-Semitism was rife. Chicago's corrupt Democratic machine tried to turn him out of office. In the memorable renomination campaign of 1936, the Roosevelt administration in Washington acquiesced in the machine's deployment of New Deal job creation programs against the governor who had painfully forced them through the legislature. He survived by winning over the affection of Downstate voters. Incensed by the betrayal of former associates, Horner became an unnaturally obsessive, vengeful politician determined to destroy the party bosses, only to fall ill and die before the end of his second term.</p>

Henry Horner and his Burden of Tragedy

Biographies & Memoirs

AuthorHouse

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Calling Elections: The History of Horse-Race Journalism

Calling Elections: The History of Horse-Race Journalism

Horner of Illinois

Henry Horner and his Burden of Tragedy