{"product_id":"9781429922029","title":"Politicking: How to Get Elected, Take Action, and Make an Impact in Your Community","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow to get elected--and live to tell the tale\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Rauch has lived an unusual political life: a decade as press secretary, advance man, and confidant to New York mayor Ed Koch, followed by a decade as city councilman and now as mayor of Beaufort, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this account of the ways and means of local politics, Rauch contends that a great city and an antebellum town pose the same challenge-that of blending blood sport and selfless public service day in and day out. How to get elected, run a meeting, work the room, and take credit when it is due; how to ward off threats from rivals and control the agenda; how to look good on camera, leak stories, and shape press coverage to your advantage: Rauch illustrates these crucial points of political life with vivid and often hilarious inside stories from his tenure in New York and in Beaufort. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoliticking\u003c\/i\u003e is a winning blend of political primer and personal chronicle; more than that, it is an unusually candid account of how the political game is played-and won-in America today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134152556784,"sku":"9781429922029","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429922029_p0.jpg?v=1769901091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429922029","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}