{"product_id":"a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-white-house-humor-blunders-and-other-oddities-from-the-presidential-campaign-trail-9781401322298","title":"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Osgood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Topic - Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Osgood, one of America's favorite news personalities, offers a hilarious compendium of anecdotes from the last seventy years of presidential campaigns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With anecdotes from Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, \u003ci\u003eA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House\u003c\/i\u003e captures the wit and humor of the campaign trail. Culled from speeches, interviews, press conferences, as well as articles written by and about the candidates--no source is left untapped. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From Bob Dole telling reporters after a loss in the primary that \"I slept like a baby--every two hours I woke up and cried,\" and Barry Goldwater's comment that his talkative opponent Hubert Humphreys \"has been clocked at 275 words a minute with gusts up to 340,\" to Adlai Stevenson declaring that \"If I talk over the people's head, Ike must be talking under their feet,\" this is the go-to source for campaign humor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Just when America most needs a good laugh, \u003ci\u003eA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House\u003c\/i\u003e makes the seemingly endless race to the presidency a lot more fun.","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45356236865687,"sku":"9781401322298","price":2618.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781401322298.webp?v=1767309276","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-white-house-humor-blunders-and-other-oddities-from-the-presidential-campaign-trail-9781401322298","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}