Description: Campaign America '96 reveals how the presidential campaign is consumed, not produced. Part autobiography, part chronicle, part incisive political analysis, part cultural history, this book parades the entire year's cast of characters across its stage. Almost all of them are back for campaign 2000. Major and minor actors take their bows, from the ineffably nontelegenic millionaire, Steve Forbes, to the ever coy Colin Powell, to sideshow contenders like Ross Perot ("Harry Truman on Ritalin"), along with the media guys and dolls who cover them. O'Rourke's new epilogue brings us up to date, covering the saga of the second term, the Lewinsky scandal, culminating in the impeachment trial, and assessing the impact both on the Clinton White House and campaign 2000.

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