Covering a Presidential campaign is like summer camp for reporters: it's both the party of a lifetime and a rite of passage into some kind of maturity. But as Robert Shogan points out in this 2001 book, the press has consistently blown the opportunity to make it a meaningful experience by getting too cozy with the staff.
Shogan, himself a veteran political reporter, looks at the past nine Presidential campaigns and explores how candidates and their handlers have consistently managed to ...