The Boys on the Bus

Cheap booze. Flying eshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols. Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse hopscotched the country with both the Nixon and McGovern campaigns and witnessed the birth of modern campaign journalism. The Boys on the Bus is the raucous story of how American news got to be what it is today. With its verve, wit, and psychological acumen, it is a classic of American reporting.

Timothy Crouse has been a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and The Village Voice, and the Washington columnist for Esquire.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Covering the Primaries and Conventions
On the Bus	p. 3
Coming to Power	p. 27
The Muskie Three and Other Campaign Reporters	p. 47
The Heavies	p. 68
More Heavies	p. 99
The Newsweeklies	p. 129
Television	p. 139
Covering Nixon's Campaign
Nixon Before the White House	p. 179
The Old Squeeze Play	p. 191
Divided They Fall	p. 214
Nixon's Campaign	p. 243
Agnew's Campaign	p. 276
Watergate	p. 289
Covering McGovern's Campaign
Chafing at the Rules	p. 303
The Black Hills	p. 320
Calling It from 30,000 Feet	p. 334
The Last Days	p. 348
Index	p. 375
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