Dirty Politics; Deception, Distraction, and Democracy
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. x, 335, [7] pages. Acid-free paper. Illustrations. Charts. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author. Based on her analysis of the 1988 presidential campaign, the author contends that television advertisements (for example, the Bush ads linking Dukakis to Willie Horton and ridiculing Dukakis' tank ride) can obscure a candidate's actual positions while mesmerizing broadcasters and reporters. In this book, Jamieson provides her readers with a new way to interpret political campaigns in an attempt to uncover the truth. She analyzes the various advertising techniques used by candidates, attempting to show themselves in a more positive light than their opponents. Jamieson also provides her readers with many advertising strategies. For example, she explains that many advertisements attempt to impersonate the news, hoping to gain legitimacy. Kathleen Hall Jamieson (born November 24, 1946) is an American professor of communication and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an author, most recently of Cyberwar, about how Russia very likely helped Donald J. Trump become the U.S. President in 2016. From 1971 to 1986, Jamieson served as a professor at the University of Maryland. She held the G. B. Dealey Regents Professorship at the University of Texas from 1986 to 1989, and served as the Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania from 1989 to 2003 and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center from 1993 to the present. More