
Daniel Boorstin, The Image: Or What Happened to the American Dream? (1962); Anthony Corrado, Let America Decide (1995); Kathleen Hall Jamieson and David S. Birdsell, Presidential Debates (1988); Martin Plissner, The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections (1999); Austin Ranney, The Past and Future of Presidential Debates (1979); Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (1998). Jamieson and Birdsell include a few mistakes, especially about the 1952 primary debate. For a news account, see "5 Candidates Call Foreign Aid Vital," New York Times, May 2, 1952, Page 13.
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