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The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House
How the "flattening of the world" has transformed politics--and what it means for the 2008 election
The 2008 presidential campaign will be like none in recent memory: the first campaign in fifty years in which both the Democrats and the Republicans must nominate a new candidate, and the first ever in which the issues of globalization and technology will decid...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
November 27th 2007
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Full Disclosure: Garrett Graff is a friend and business associate of my son, who appears a few time in this book. I know and like Garrett and find his insights intelligent and his thoughts the product of reflection. In other words, this is a great book, not just about the process of US presidential campaigns but much much broader in scope as the subtitle asserts. It not only diagnoses a number of problems we Americans face but also states flatly that the solutions are before us, waiting only...more
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An excellent role at how the internet and social media technology will affect this year's election. Great insights from someone who has been on the ground doing the work before. Graff's writing is enjoyable, too. Definitely recommend this to anyone interested in politics, elections or the social implications of technology.
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Graff's book is the most precise and literate chronicle of American e-politics I've encountered.
I learned that either YouTube or MySpace will win the presidential election next year.
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