Trail Fever: Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House Cover
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Trail Fever Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House

Michael Lewis

A wickedly funny and astute chronicle of the 1996 presidential campaign--and how we go about choosing our leaders at the turn of the century. In it Michael Lewis brings to the political scene the same brilliance that distinguished his celebrated best-seller about the financial world, Liar's Poker.

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The Bulwark Podcast

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The Bulwark Podcast

This older book, eventually retitled 'Losers', featured the thesis that a lot of the most interesting and ultimately used ideas came from a mix of weird political candidates followed on the trail.

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So there's this great book that Michael Lewis wrote years ago called Trail Fever. Eventually it got a new title called Losers and the thesis of this was he hit the trail in I want to say 1996 and foll...

— Episode: Ben Terris: It's Not Going Back to Norma...

Episode: Ben Terris: It's Not Going Back to Normal

This older book, eventually retitled 'Losers', featured the thesis that a lot of the most interesting and ultimately used ideas came from a mix of weird political candidates followed on the trail.

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So there's this great book that Michael Lewis wrote years ago called Trail Fever. Eventually it got a new title called Losers and the thesis of this was he hit the trail in I want to say 1996 and followed around a cast of B and C and D list Republican candidates for president and his thesis was a lot of the kind of most interesting and ultimately used ideas come from this kind of mix of weird people.

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