An edition of The Advance Man (1971)

The Advance Man

An Off-beat Look at What Really Happens in Political Campaigns

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An edition of The Advance Man (1971)

The Advance Man

An Off-beat Look at What Really Happens in Political Campaigns

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The Advance Man is a memoir-style collection of stores from Jerry Bruno's time working on the presidential campaigns of John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy and in the J.F.K. White House. Bruno was an "advance man," charged with doing the ground work for the events and appearances by the candidate or President. Bruno's job was to make the events look flawless and on-schedule, the crowds look big and happy, and the candidates look popular and prepared -- even if none of those things actually was true.

Written with politico-cum-journalist Jeff Greenfield, Bruno uses his experiences to illuminate some of the tricks of the business for advance men (and women) still plying the trade today. He shares some of what Mike Murphy calls "the backstage potion bottle that conjured up much of the remarkable Kennedy campaign magic." He also tells the stories of the assassinations of both Kennedy brothers from a front-row seat advantage. These parts of the book are personal and poignant, yet they still manage to focus on the importance of advance work -- and on the importance of improvising under duress.

Finally, toward the end of the book, Bruno makes some prognostications that stand now as relics of an apparently unpredictable era in American politics.

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Publisher
Bantam
Language
English
Pages
192

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Published in

New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
329/.023/73
Library of Congress
JK1976 .B75

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
192 p.
Number of pages
192

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4580570M
Internet Archive
advanceman00brun
LCCN
77153187
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B003ZZT3JG
Library Thing
2374327

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October 7, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot merge duplicate works of 'The advance man'
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record.