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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027596163X
• ISBN13: 9780275961633
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"