See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate in American History

by Gil Troy

A strategic history of every presidential campaign shows that Americans' frustration with today's expensive campaign vulgarity is an expression of a centuries-long struggle to make peace with the idea of leadership in a democracy.

Genres: History, American History, Nonfiction

354 pages, Hardcover

First published November 4, 1991

About the author

Gil Troy is the author of "The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s" to be published October 6 by Thomas Dunne Books of St. Martin's Press. An American presidential historian and a regular columnist for the Daily Beast, this will be his eleventh book. He is Professor of History at McGill University and will be in Washington DC this fall as a Visting Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Troy wrote The Age of Clinton on a tight deadline, speculating that Hillary Clinton just might run for President in 2016 and that Americans would be ready this fall to rethink what happened in the 1990s. He worked until 5 AM most nights, woke up at 7 (he is married with four children), jogged for an hour, then worked. He met the deadline and lost 30 pounds.