Book Review Format:

November 28  (10 minutes for each presentation)

1. Cindy Drummond: The Making of the President, 1960.  T. White
2. Morio Davis.  John F. Kennedy and the Media: The First Television President.  Joseph Berry.
3. Scott Turner.  The Great Shark Hunt. Hunter Thompson.
4. Erin Blackwell.  The Camera Never Blinks.  Dan Rather.
5. Chris Farley.  "Meet the Press": Six Decades of Political History.  Rich Ball and Tim Russert
6. Marsha Summers.  The Great Debates: Background, Perspective, Effects.  Sidney Kraus
7. Ashley Gregory.  Women on Politics.
8. Amelia Monroe.  The News of Politics: The Politics of News.

November 30

1. Whitney Lovett: The Sound Bite Society: Television and the American Mind.  Jeffrey Scheurer
2. Bodnar, Laura.  Talking Politics: choosing the President in the TV Age.  Liz Cunningham.
3. Shannon Young.  On the Line: (The New Road to the White House) Larry King, Mark Stencil.
4. Katie Bustler.  Hardball: Revised and Updated.  Chris Matthews.
5. Corey Hannah.  We're Right, They're Wrong -- A Handbook for Spirited Progressives.  James Carville.
6. Vince Santo.  All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President.
7. Matt Schmidz.  Primary Colors.  Joe Kline.
8. Lori Deitz.  Spin Cycle.  Howard Kurtz.
9. Lori Tays.  Peepshow: Media and Politics in an Age of Scandal.  Larry Sabato.
10. Alithia McDaniel.  Dirty Politics.  Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
11. Kristy Kerby.  Going Negative.  Steven Ansolabehere.

December 5

1. Sean Lyons, Shannon Young.  Death of Outrage. William J. Bennett 
2. Jake Glover, Wally Whidby.  A New Kind of Party Animal: How the Youth are Tearing Up the Political Landscape.  
3. Doug Stokes, Matt Schmidz  Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie. Hunter Thompson. 
4. Tashia Wales:  Fortunate Son: George W. Bush: The Making of American President. J. H. Hatfield
5. Jennifer Krotec.  Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections.   Richard Logan Fox.
6. Natalie Cranston.   The 60 Television Shows and Evens that Made Us Who We are Today.  Steven Stark.
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December 5  :  

TERM PAPERS WILL BE DUE.  Students doing projects MAY turn in the paper portion of their project on Dec. 5 or may turn it in on the presentation day.

TAKE HOME FINAL will be distributed.

FINAL EXAM PERIOD:   FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8th at 3:15 to 5:00 p.m.

TAKE HOME FINAL DUE.

Presentations Due:

Tashia Wales / Ashley Gregory : Demographic Influence on Voting Behavior.

Katie Bustler / Laura Bodnar:   Production Values in Political Commercials.

Lori Dietz / Shannon Young:  Electoral College--Perspectives, Problems, Prospects.

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