Running With the Machine: A Journalist's Eye-Opening Plunge into Politics

by Dan Lynch

When author Dan Lynch retired from a 30-year career as a reporter and columnist, he decided to run for a seat in the New York State Assembly during the same campaign season as Hillary Rodham Clinton's run for the U.S. Senate. In this absorbing book, Lynch chronicles his campaign spent running as an independent in the Democratic slot.

436 pages, Hardcover

First published September 2, 2004

About the author

Dan Lynch is the author of thirteen books both fiction and non-fiction. He is a veteran newspaperman, nationally distributed columnist, and radio and television commentator. His live radio program is broadcast weekdays on TALK 1300, Albany’s leading news-talk station. He formerly created and hosted a television interview show, Dan Lynch Dialogues, which aired weekly on NBC affiliate WNYT. In addition to his radio show, Dan writes and produces documentary films.

Also wrote as Daniel Lynch.