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An exclusive excerpt from 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail which captures the campaign through comics.
From the book 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail, by Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman (c) 2009. With permission from Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
Michael Crowley covered the 2008 campaign for The New Republic. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, GQ, Slate, and other publications. He is also a frequent political commentator on MSNBC, CBS, CNN, and NPR. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dan Goldman is the artist of the critically acclaimed graphic novel Shooting War and the writer of the political fiction Every Man. His work has appeared in Wired, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine, and Forbes. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
John Talks Joe
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Amateur Hour at the White House
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Going Rogue: The Index
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Nice artwork. For all those republicans now conceding how well Obama's campaign went, it certainly wasn't without them trying to trash him at every turn. 'Terrorist fist jab' being the most shameful of all, because the pretty blonde can just say she was reading the tele-prompter.
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