How To Win Your 1st Election

By Susan Guber

Book Overview

"It's all here-how to run, and how to win...it's unique, written by someone who knows what it's like to throw her hat in the ring and put together a winning campaign. What I particularly like about it is its emphasis on grass roots campaigning-something our candidates and our political parties aren't doing enough of these days." - Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Presidential Candidate

"How to Win Your First Election is the ideal 'how-to' book for aspiring candidates, campaign managers, public relations consultants, and students of political science and American government." - Wisconsin Bookwatch

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574441302
• ISBN13: 9781574441307
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Helpful

It is an extraordinary book for someone who has no idea about how to begin his/her campaign. Some issues are useless outside of USA, but most of them are helpful in democratic countries worldwide. I became conected with my campaign in Mexico City and I expect that Susan Guber help me to be local representative next year (I may write an additional comment by July 7th 2003).RR

Good book but a little dated

This book was written in 1988 and updated in 1997. Despite the update, it is still dated in some ways .. particularly as to advice on using the computer in your campaign. I think a more up to date book is Judge Lawrence Grey's "How to Win a Local Election." Still, this book is very good in may ways in that it goes over all the aspects of running for local office. It shows how to get organized and how to do the importnant things for a local race, such as door to door campaigning. All in all, this book is helpful to the candidate for local office.