CIAO DATE: 10/04
Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High-Risk TV
Alan Schroeder
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
The Predebate Debate (PDF format, 27 pages, 111.6 KB)
Strategy and Preparation (PDF format, 27 pages, 123.9 KB)
Predebate News Coverage (PDF format, 28 pages, 128.4 KB)
Part II: Production
The Debaters (PDF format, 31 pages, 132.6 KB)
The Questioners (PDF format, 24 pages, 110.2 KB)
The Productions (PDF format, 23 pages, 101.2 KB)
Part III: Postproduction
Postdebate News Coverage (PDF format, 29 pages, 127.6 KB)
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)