For more than a year, NEWSWEEK followed the presidential campaigns of both men from the inside. Beginning in mid-2003, a team of NEWSWEEK reporters detached from the weekly magazine to devote themselves to observing, recording and shaping the narrative that follows. The reporters were granted unusual access to the staffs and families of both candidates on the understanding that the information they learned would not be made public until this Election Issue—after the votes were cast on Nov. 2.
• Introduction
• Chapter One: The Primaries
• Chapter Two: Bush’s Inner Circle
• Chapter Three: Kerry Gets Cranky
• Chapter Four: The Prison Scandal
• Chapter Five: The Bush Daughters
• Chapter Six: Swift Boats
• Chapter Seven: The Debates
• Chapter Eight: The Endgame
I haven’t gotten through all of them yet. From the three chapters that I’ve read so far, they are all professionally written and extremely interesting. They go behind-the-scenes at both the Kerry compaign and the Bush compaign.
And for further reading here’s an article from the New York Post Online Edition that elaborates on the election results: HOW W WON
Another link: On the trail of Kerry’s failed dream
