Diary of a Dark Horse

Mark Bisnow was press secretary and executive assistant to Congressman (and presidential candidate) John Anderson be­tween 1978 and 1980. He was considered to have been Anderson’s closest aide. He is presently a law student at Harvard.

“A remarkably insightful case study that will both delight aficionados and inform scholars.”—Library Journal  “Mark Bisnow’s chronicle . . . is the best book to come out of the 1980 campaign, addressing in a more en­gaging and revealing manner than any other questions about the power of personality in politics, the decline of the parties, and the influence of the media.”—Sidney Blumenthal, New Republic“This is the most lucidly detailed ac­count, day-by-day and sometimes hour-by-hour, ever written on a po­litical campaign. It is fascinating and a luminous document on the high lunacy of campaign professionals, as they are known, and of some ama­teurs as well.”—John Kenneth Gaibraith