Electronic Whistle-Stops: The Impact of the Internet on American Politics

by Gary W. Selnow

Book Overview

Fifty years ago, the political whistle-stop tour was thus named because trains blew their whistles twice when making unscheduled stops in backwater towns. Like its distant cousin, the electronic whistle-stop brings the candidate's message directly to the people, but with one outstanding difference: the new whistle-stop offers politicians an accuracy, efficiency, and success at voter persuasian unimaginable to by earlier whistle-stoppers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275961648
• ISBN13: 9780275961640
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"