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CIAO DATE: 10/04

Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High-Risk TV

Alan Schroeder

Columbia University Press

October 2001

 

Table of Contents

Front Matter and Acknowledgments(PDF format, 12 pages, 40.7 KB)

Introduction: The First Presidential Debate (PDF format, 10 pages, 62.2 KB)

Part I: Preproduction

  1. The Predebate Debate (PDF format, 27 pages, 111.6 KB)

  2. Strategy and Preparation (PDF format, 27 pages, 123.9 KB)

  3. Predebate News Coverage (PDF format, 28 pages, 128.4 KB)

Part II: Production

  1. The Debaters (PDF format, 31 pages, 132.6 KB)

  2. The Questioners (PDF format, 24 pages, 110.2 KB)

  3. The Productions (PDF format, 23 pages, 101.2 KB)

Part III: Postproduction

  1. Postdebate News Coverage (PDF format, 29 pages, 127.6 KB)

  2. The Audience (PDF format, 15 pages, 75.3 KB)

Conclusion (PDF format, 8 pages, 42.7 KB)

Notes (PDF format, 30 pages, 166.9 KB)

References (PDF format, 6 pages, 51.4 KB)

Schedule of Televised Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates: 1960–1996 (PDF format, 4 pages, 23.5 KB)

Index (PDF format, 14 pages, 66.9 KB)