Quest for the Presidency 1992
by Thomas M. Defrank, Mark Miller
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Author: Mark Miller, Thomas M. DefrankEditor: Peter Louis Goldman
Contributor: Andrew Murr
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 1994-11
ISBN: 0890966443
Number of pages: 742
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Book Review: The 1992 and the Presidency at hand.
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is a projector of the 1992 election's records which brought us the announcement about to happen: a new era in American politics. A group of Newsweek's award-winning team of reporters had access to the Clinton's team of aides and advisers to follow very closely the steps and strategies of the campaign promising to be confidential and silent until the final outcome of the race. It also includes primary materials of unpublished campaign documents and the vivid hopes and fears during the debates and polls passing through the final count of votes ending joyful. The young contender gained the public and proved to be a serious candidate smelling as President.
Peter Goldman, the main writer, is a contributing editor at Newsweek, where he has written about politics and government for more than thirty years. He was accompanied by Thomas M. DeFrank (won the 1993 White House Correspondents' Association's highest award), Mark Miller, Andrew Murr, and Tom Mathews (senior editor at Newsweek) as the composition team of this book. Together with Newsweek's photojournalists they covered the campaign and directly contributed to this work.
The Contents of the book are various, but divided in five main divisions: I. A Quiet National Crisis. II. The Challenger. III. The President. IV. The Billionaire, and V. The Choice. There are plenty of subdivisions analyzing the situation from the very moment of the "autumn" of President George Bush, passing through the national crisis and loss of faith in the American Dream, with the unhappiness and inflated politics that plagued our society. The worldwide alliance he organized against Saddam Hussein and the televised aggression with its smart rockets and bombs. The worsening of the American economy distanced him from Governor Clinton's dawn for the White House, and an ominously growing number of Americans saw in the old Bush a lack of conviction about the things that mattered most to them.
American democracy did not portray two faces only. The scenario brought more crusaders type like Pat Buchanan, Jerry Brown, and Ross Perot which with surprising effectiveness argued that there was not a two-party system anymore. They were able to show themselves as carriers of political denunciations related with the absence of principles in the so called traditional parties, but sustained only with power, compromises, and money, abandoning and betraying the American Dream.
Little Rock began to raise a sounding cry. Bill and Hillary Clinton were a couple that shared enough ambitions and bitterness to smile at the odds that scared everybody else but them, and run with happiness into Washington's Capitol Hill. The George Bush control and 'absolutism' had to be overcome. They had mad times, but young advisers as Stephanopoulos and James Carville firefightered the media with willingness.
This book brings us an insight of the fight for the black votes, the yellow ones and the worldwide citizenry if that mattered. The season of candidates talking waste and shooting insults to one another, while Billy the Boy focused in the big picture leaving senseless details for the adversaries. It worked out! The "Manhattan Project" resurrected Clinton's view of the race portraying him as a viable candidate. Time was to erase any doubt about him. New fights of madness came to light. Bush maddens against Buchanan and thus lost what had become the real battle in the media-age politics. He hanged himself becoming unelectable. Ross Perot and his anti-incumbency and strike against the political order worsened all and helped someway to handicap the President. The "Citizen Perot" and his reputation as a man of character attracted votes in the midst of a buoyant society, making others perspire.
Clinton's people avoided to fight while George Bush was dodging in a bull's quarrel, and precious time was running and seriously damaging the path of the incumbent. Election Day was about to give birth and "People first" became the new Clintonian approach to finish off. George needed a 'final thrust' and non James Baker, Quayle, or any other was able to provide it.
Bill Clinton won, as we know, bringing tears to some, and worries to others; but the imminent victory healed plenty of hearts and ignited hope. His quest for the presidency ended with over moistened eyes and the birth of a new presidency which linked with the youth of the winners sent a clear message: the World War II generation had to go rest if not forever, at least for a while. Would he be up to the task? Hard to say, but this is what this book is about, an inside look at the intrigues, moods and passion spilled during those never-ending days before the final march toward the White House Castle.
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