The People's Choice
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. vii, [2], 309, [1] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author to radio personality Jim Bohannon. Jeffrey Greenfield (born June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist and author. In 1964 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Cardinal. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, In 1966, Greenfield graduated with a bachelor of laws degree from Yale Law School. He also served as a speechwriter for Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He has reported primarily on domestic politics and the media and occasionally on culture. He was the host of the national public television series "CEO Exchange," featuring in-depth interviews with high-profile chief executive officers, for five seasons. He served as media commentator for CBS News from 1979 to 1983 and as political and media analyst for ABC News from 1983 to 1997. He served as a senior analyst at CNN from 1998 to 2007. On May 1, 2007, Greenfield returned to CBS News, where he served as a senior political correspondent until April 2011. He currently hosts PBS's "Need To Know" and also does political commentary on NBC Nightly News. He has also written or contributed to eleven books and has written for Time, and The New York Times. Greenfield is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, one for a profile of H. Ross Perot (1992). Then Everything Changed was a finalist for the 2011 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, James E. Bohannon (born January 7, 1944) is an American broadcaster who has worked in both television and radio. He is best known for hosting the nationally syndicated late night radio talk show The Jim Bohannon Show on the Westwood One Network. For 31 years, he also hosted America in The Morning, a nationally syndicated radio news show, stepping down in December 2015. Bohannon was voted one of "The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America" for three consecutive years by Talkers magazine, and in 2013 was chosen as the recipient of Talkers Lifetime Achievement Award. Jim Bohannon was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2003. He has also been nominated for the National Association of Broadcasters Marconi Award for Network Syndicated Personality of the Year. After his discharge from the U.S. Army, Bohannon remained in Washington D.C. where he worked in a series of radio jobs throughout the 1970s. They included stints at news stations WTOP and WRC as well as easy listening station WGAY. In 1980, he returned closer to his Midwestern roots as he took a job at WCFL, Chicago. While doing morning drive at WCFL he also landed a second job in the afternoons as a Chicago bureau reporter for the young upstart CNN. Through the Mutual Broadcasting System's ownership of WCFL, Bohannon secured a role as the primary guest host on The Larry King Show and also hosted his own Saturday evening call-in show. In 1993, Westwood One, which had purchased Mutual in 1985, moved Larry King to an afternoon time slot and offered Bohannon his own show in King's late evening time slot. The Jim Bohannon Show made its debut on January 29, 1993 and met with immediate ratings success. Broadcasting from Washington, D.C., WFED (as successor to the now defunct Washington Post Radio) is his flagship station, with over 350 affiliates nationwide. Bohannon's political views, as stated on air, lean toward being moderate and/or slightly conservative, something he calls being a "militant moderate".
A novel about the pitfalls of presidential politics after the campaign is over. The People's Choice (occasionally titled The People's Choice: A Cautionary Tale) is a 1995 novel written by Jeff Greenfield. When the United States' President-Elect MacArthur Foyle dies after the general election, but before the Electoral College has a chance to vote him into office, the media and the election process are swung into chaos. On Election Day in 1996, the The Republican presidential ticket of Foyle-Block wins enough states to receive 305 Electoral Votes, compared to 233 Electoral votes for the Democratic ticket of Mueller-Vincent. Since 270 Electoral votes are needed to win the Presidency, the issue of who should be the next President is thought resolved. However, President-elect Foyle dies only days after the election in a freak accident. The Republican party then promotes his running mate, Governor Theodore Block, to the top of the ticket. Governor Block quickly proves that he is a mental lightweight, his nickname being Terry Blockhead, leading some to question his fitness for the Presidency. One of those questioning Block's fitness to be President is Michigan Elector Dorothy Ledger, one of those forgotten people lost in a party's political machine who seems unimportant—until the fate of an election hinges on her actions. Ledger publicly questions whether she is required to vote for Block, and in so doing sets-off a political firestorm and a minor rebellion among some Republican Electors. A series of missteps by Block further exacerbates the issue. Condition: Very good / very good.
Keywords: Inscribed, U.S. Presidents, Fiction, Electoral College, Politics, Government, Vice Presidents, Presidential Electors, Jim Bohannon, Elections, Electoral Votes, Presidency, Theodore Block, MacArthur Foyle
ISBN: 0399138129
[Book #73978]
Price: $55.00