Jules Witcover

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Jules Joseph Witcover (born July 16, 1927) is an American journalist, author, and columnist.

Witcover is a veteran newspaperman of 50 years' standing, having written for the The Baltimore Sun, the now-defunct Washington Star, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.[1] [2]With his partner, Jack Germond, Witcover co-wrote "Politics Today," a five-day-a-week syndicated column, for over 24 years.

His syndicated column now appears in the Examiner. [3]

He lives in Washington, DC with his wife. His most recent book is Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew, Public Affairs (2007).[4]

In March 2008, his history of campaign finance reform, "The Longest Campaign," appeared on the Center for Public Integrity's The Buying of the President 2008 website. [5]

[edit] Books written with Germond

Blue Smoke & Mirrors: How Reagan Won and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980, Viking Press (1981)

Wake Us When It's Over: Presidential Politics of 1984, Macmillan (1985)

Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988, Warner Books (1989)

Mad As Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box 1992, Warner Books (1992)

[edit] Books written solo

The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat, Johns Hopkins Press (2005)

Party of the People: A History of the Democrats, Random House (2003)

No Way to Pick a President: How Money and Hired Guns Have Debased American Elections, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1999)

The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America, Warner Books (1997)

Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency 1972-1976, Viking Press (1977), an exhaustive and authoritative work.

Crapshoot: Rolling the Dice on the Vice Presidency, Crown Publishers (1992)