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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail Hardcover - 2008

by Charles Osgood

One of America's favorite news personalities offers a rib-tickling compendiumof anecdotes from the last 70 years of presidential campaigns.


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  • Title A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail
  • Author Charles Osgood
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Books, N . Y.
  • Date 2008-05-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781401322298 / 1401322298
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.86 x 0.84 in (21.39 x 14.88 x 2.13 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, United States - Politics and government
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.099

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2008, Page 4
  • Library Journal, 05/05/2008, Page 0

About the author

Charles Osgood writes and anchors The Osgood File four times daily over the CBS radio network and anchors CBS television's Sunday Morning every week. He is the winner of two Emmys and three Peabody Awards; Washington Journalism Review named him "Best in the Business" five years running; and in 1990 he was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters' Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He lives in New Jersey.
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