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“The collection of anecdotes, stories, and sayings that follow aren’t intended to encourage the cruel purveyors of the smear and “Big Lie” techniques familiar to the politics of hate. Rather, they’re meant as a modest guideline, to help the reader visualize the impressive heights to which American campaigns, elections and their participants could soar by recognizing the agonizing depths to which they’ve often sunk.”

— Jack Mitchell, author of “How to Get Elected”, an anecdotal history of mudslinging, red-baiting, vote-stealing and dirty tricks in American politics.
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“The collection of anecdotes, stories, and sayings that follow aren’t intended to encourage the cruel purveyors of the smear and “Big Lie” techniques familiar to the politics of hate. Rather, they’re meant as a modest guideline, to help the reader visualize the impressive heights to which American campaigns, elections and their participants could soar by recognizing the agonizing depths to which they’ve often sunk.”

— Jack Mitchell, author of “How to Get Elected”, an anecdotal history of mudslinging, red-baiting, vote-stealing and dirty tricks in American politics.