# Good book about presidential campaigns going back to the first one

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**Created:** [November 7, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-book-about-presidential-campaigns-going-back-to-the-first-one/471622 "2008-11-07T12:41:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-book-about-presidential-campaigns-going-back-to-the-first-one/471622/1 "2008-11-07T12:41:22Z")

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Stat!

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-book-about-presidential-campaigns-going-back-to-the-first-one/471622/2 "2008-11-07T14:54:17Z")

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_Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush_ by Paul F. Boller. You can preview it on Google Books [here](http://books.google.com/books?id=MpCTZQywq0YC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0). (Note: It doesn’t include the 2004 campaign, but we all remember enough about that, right?) I read it a couple months ago and found it pretty interesting.