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Book Jacket THE LAST DEBATE

JIM LEHRER
SUMMARY  |  EXCERPT   |  AUTHOR'S NOTE   |  QUOTES
A NOTE FROM JIM LEHRER

The seeds for The Last Debate were planted on a Sunday afternoon in 1988. My wife Kate and I were about to leave our hotel room in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for me to go moderate a presidential debate between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. I had in my hands a folder with questions that three fellow journalists and I had worked out to ask the two candidates. I said to Kate, "Both campaigns would probably kill to know what was in this folder." And that led to our concluding that somewhere in that and other presidential debate possibilities lurked a novel. It continued to lurk through the 1992 campaign when I moderated two Bush-Clinton-Perot debates. From that experience came the idea of a journalist panel deciding before a debate that a particular candidate, if elected President, would be a disaster for this country. So they, as citizens, need to act... The Last Debate is the end result.
PAPERBACK
ISBN 978-1-58648-004-2
Pub date: 08/31/00
Price: $15.95/19.50 Canada
5-1/2 X 8-1/4
368 pages
Carton Quantity: 40
Fiction
Selling Territory: WORLD EXCL. UK & COMMONWEALTH
Pub history: Random House hc

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