Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain Audiobook (Free)

NARRATED BY THE WRITER, THIS Particular AUDIOBOOK Documenting OF Pressure CITY INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND DEBATE EXCERPTS FROM 1960 THROUGH 2008!

“In his quiet but intense method, Jim Lehrer earns the trust of the main political players of our time,” notes Barbara Walters. “He explains and exposes their hopes and dreams, their advantages and failures because they try to place their best feet forward.”

From the man widely hailed as “the Dean of Moderators” comes a lively and uncovering publication that pulls about Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain back the curtain on more than forty many years of televised political debate in America. A experienced newsman that has presided over eleven presidential and vice-presidential debates, Jim Lehrer gives readers a ringside seat for some from the epic political fights of our period, shedding light on all of the critical turning points and rhetorical faux pas that helped determine the outcome of America’s presidential elections-and with them the span of background. Drawing on his own encounters as “the man in the centre seat,” in-depth interviews using the candidates and his fellow moderators, and transcripts of important exchanges, Lehrer isolates and illuminates what he calls the “Major Occasions” and “killer queries” that described the debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain.

Oftentimes these occasions involve the applicants themselves and so are seared into our collective political memory space. Michael Dukakis stumbles badly over a question about the death charges. Dan Quayle compares himself to John F. Kennedy once all too often. Barack Obama and John McCain barely make eye contact during the period of a ninety-minute discussion. At other situations, the argument moderators themselves become area of the story-and Lehrer is there to provide us a backstage go through the crisis. Peter Jennings suggests unexpected the applicants by suspending the thoroughly negotiated rules moments prior to the 1988 presidential debate-to the consternation of his fellow panelists. Lehrer himself weathers a firestorm of criticism over his functionality as moderator of the 2000 Bush-Gore debate. And then there are the excruciating moments when audio lines go deceased and TelePrompTers stay dark simply seconds before going on the air live in front side of an internationally television market of millions.

Asked to sum up his experience like a participant in high-level televised debates, President George H. W. Bush memorably likened these to an evening in “stress city.” In Jim Lehrer’s absorbing insider accounts, we discover out that truer words were hardly ever spoken.