Inside the Presidential Debates

Foreword by Vartan Gregorian
Acknowledgments
Introduction 

Chapter 1         How Adlai Stevenson Put John F. Kennedy in the White House
Chapter 2         Presidential Debates and “Equal Opportunity”
Chapter 3         “If You’re Thirty-two Points Behind, What Else Are You Going to Do?”
Chapter 4         The Commission on Presidential Debates and Its Critics
Chapter 5         The Dilemma: Who Debates?
Chapter 6         How to Improve the Presidential Debates
 
Appendixes 
A          Memorandum of Understanding between the Bush and Kerry Campaigns, 2004
B          Negotiated Agreements between the League of Women Voters and the Ford and Carter Campaigns, 1976
C         Section 312 of the Communications Act: “Reasonable Access” for Candidates for Federal Office
D         Challenges to the CPD under Federal Election and Tax Law
E          Broadcast Debates and the First Amendment
F          The Televised Presidential Debates, 1960–2004
 
Notes
Index