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Mears, Walter. Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: a Reporter's Story.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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Sept. 2003. 360p. illus. Andrews McMeel, $24.95 (0-7407-3852-6). 324.973.

Mears, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with Associated Press, the oldest and largest news service, here writes about his career spent witnessing and reporting on the political figures and policies that have shaped America in the past 40 years. Covering 11 presidential campaigns from 1960 until 2000, Mears also offers a personal account of his life as a wire reporter, before the advent of cell phones, when he called in breaking news from a pay phone in Boston informally reserved for bookies and joined comrades in keeping secret ...

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