Jamieson, Kathleen Hall : University of Pennsylvania

A nationally renowned expert on presidential politics, Kathleen Hall Jamieson is Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of several widely acclaimed books on American politics and is herself a frequent media commentator on "CBS News," "Weekend Edition," and "CNN's Inside Politics." She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"Kathleen Hall Jamieson's Everything You Think You Know About Politics...And Why You're Wrong stands the conventional wisdom of pundits and pols on its head. For those serious about making sense of politics, this book is an indispensable guide."

--James Carville and Mary Matalin

"If you love to live, breathe and argue politics, this book is for you."

--Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press

"Darn that Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Every time I think I know something for sure, I check her book and discover I had it backwards. This book is going to make a lot of extra work for fact checkers and political reporters but it will be the book we all turn to most during the campaign season."

--Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News

Submitted by Perseus Books Group Web Site, October, 2001

Here, at last, is the book for anyone who ever wondered how the media extravaganzas we call political campaigns really work. Everything You Think You Know About Politics�and Why You're Wrong explores why the American public, seemingly so eager for "unspun" information about candidates and their positions, invariably ends up feeling manipulated by our political process.Challenging the reader with strategically placed quizzes, well-known commentator on the media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson surveys the existing public record on voting patterns, campaign promises, and all manner of electioneering and comes up with an engaging mix of analysis, surprising factoids, and political cartoons. This book separates the facts from the convenient fictions that deter Americans from caring about the processes and outcomes of elections.