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Book cover image of The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse

Authors: Timothy Crouse, Hunter S. Thompson (Foreword by), Hunter S. Thompson
ISBN-13: 9780812968200, ISBN-10: 0812968204
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Timothy Crouse

Book Synopsis

Cheap booze. Flying ﬂeshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols.

Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse hopscotched the country with both the Nixon and McGovern campaigns and witnessed the birth of modern campaign journalism. The Boys on the Bus is the raucous story of how American news got to be what it is today. With its verve, wit, and psychological acumen, it is a classic of American reporting.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Pt. 1	Covering the Primaries and Conventions
I	On the Bus	3
II	Coming to Power	27
III	The Muskie Three and Other Campaign Reporters	47
IV	The Heavies	68
V	More Heavies	99
VI	The Newsweeklies	129
VII	Television	139
Pt. 2	Covering Nixon's Campaign
VIII	Nixon Before the White House	179
IX	The Old Squeeze Play	191
X	Divided They Fall	214
XI	Nixon's Campaign	243
XII	Agnew's Campaign	276
XIII	Watergate	289
Pt. 3	Covering McGovern's Campaign
XIV	Chafing at the Rules	303
XV	The Black Hills	320
XVI	Calling It from 30,000 Feet	334
XVII	The Last Days	348
	Index	375