Mea Culpa
I voted for Eldridge Cleaver, and helped elect Nixon. Today’s new voters shouldn’t repeat my mistake.
Peter Knobler is, with James Carville and Mary Matalin, co-author of All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President. He has collaborated on the autobiographies of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ann Richards, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Sumner Redstone, among others. His collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger, American Dreamer, will be published in November. Knobler is the former editor-in-chief of Crawdaddy, the first magazine to take rock and roll seriously. Find him on Twitter @peterknobler.