Televised Presidential Debates: Advocacy in Contemporary America

by Steven R. Brydon, Michael Pfau, Susan A. Hellweg, et al.

Televised debates between the nominees of the two major parties have become standard fare in contemporary presidential election campaigns. The authors of this important volume maintain that television has altered the very nature of presidential debates profoundly, that the demands of television have dictated the structure and formats of contemporary debates, and that the visual content of presidential debates plays an important role in the way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027593621X
• ISBN13: 9780275936211
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"