Confessions of a political hitman : my secret life of scandal, corruption, hypocrisy and dirty attacks that decide who gets elected (and who doesn't) / Stephen Marks.
Material type: TextPublication details: Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2007.Description: xvi, 389 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1402208545 (hardcover)
- 9781402208546 (hardcover)
- Marks, Stephen, 1957-
- Elections -- United States -- History
- Political campaigns -- Corrupt practices -- United States -- History
- Political candidates -- Research -- United States
- Political consultants -- United States
- Scandals -- United States -- History
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For the past 12 years, Stephen Marks has built a career as one of the country's top opposition researchers - the political assassins who dig up and reveal the dirt on candidates. This story follows Marks from his early days as a press secretary to his rapid movement in to the secret world of opposition research.
The beginning of the end : Jack Abramoff, John Kerry, and Al Gore -- A political junkie is born -- Clinton shock -- The birth of oppo man and the Republican revolution -- Perks of the job -- Bush versus Chiles : the 1994 Florida gubernatorial race -- Gunning for Gephardt -- The Buchanan presidential campaigns : the worst sides of American politics -- Proof that negative campaigning leads to electoral victory -- Jesse Helms versus Harvey Gantt -- John Kerry versus Bill Weld -- Dirty tricks : the rise and fall of Georgia senator Max Cleland -- Dole versus Clinton -- Corporate hitman : digging dirt for corporations -- Action in Texas -- Sex, lies, and Republican hypocrisy : the downfall of the GOP, 1994-2006 -- Only in Louisiana : cynical politics at its worst -- Only in New Jersey : two consecutive sitting governors resign in disgrace -- Cockfighting and imploding candidates : action in Kansas and Oklahoma -- Oppo men vs. oppo men : blindsided in New Hampshire -- The unpredictable nature of opposition research and negative campaigning -- Tom Delay, Ronnie Earle, and oppo man -- Only in Ohio: good state gone bad? -- The Bush brothers (W. and Jeb) versus Katherine Harris in Florida -- Mark Foley, pedophilia, and sex crimes -- Don Goldwater for governor in Arizona -- Symmetry and irony.