Hail to the Candidate by Keith E. Melder (1992)

To most people, our electoral stalemate has dragged on long enough such that they are longing for the tranquility of politics as usual. Instead, I think these campaigns are a great thing for the American people. The campaign is the only time when we can truly hold our leaders under scrutiny rather than placing them on a pedestal. To win our votes, they must come across as disciplined, hard-working, and sincere, without speaking down to us from an ivory tower (see Adlai Stevenson). Hail to the Candidate is a concise evolution of the candidate-voter relationship. The book is spangled with...