ROBERT E. DENTON JR. is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the editor of two Praeger Series, Political Communication and Presidential Studies, and is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books, including The Media and the Persian Gulf War (Praeger, 1993), Ethical Dimensions of Political Communication (Praeger, 1991), and Political Communication in America (second edition) (Praeger, 1990).

• Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments A Communication Model of Presidential Campaigns: A 1992 Overview by Robert E. Denton, Jr. and Mary Stuckey The Early Campaign by Judith S. Trent The 1992 Presidential Nominating Conventions: Cordial Concurrence Revisited by David Timmerman and Larry David Smith The 1992 Presidential Debates by Robert V. Friedenberg Political Advertising in the 1992 Campaign by Lynda Lee Kaid A Time for Change in American Politics: The Issue of the 1992 Presidential Election by Rachel L. Holloway Voter Rationality and Media Excess: Image in the 1992 Presidential Campaign by Alan Louden Television News and the Advertising-Driven New Mass Media Election: A More Significant Local Role in 1992? by Montague Kern and Robert H. Wicks The Electronic Town Hall in Campaign '92: Interactive Forum or Carnival of Buncombe? by Dan Nimmo Video Verite: C-SPAN Covers the Candidates by Jannette Kenner Muir Selected Bibliography

ROBERT E. DENTON JR. is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the editor of two Praeger Series, Political Communication and Presidential Studies, and is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books, including The Media and the Persian Gulf War (Praeger, 1993), Ethical Dimensions of Political Communication (Praeger, 1991), and Political Communication in America (second edition) (Praeger, 1990).

• Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments A Communication Model of Presidential Campaigns: A 1992 Overview by Robert E. Denton, Jr. and Mary Stuckey The Early Campaign by Judith S. Trent The 1992 Presidential Nominating Conventions: Cordial Concurrence Revisited by David Timmerman and Larry David Smith The 1992 Presidential Debates by Robert V. Friedenberg Political Advertising in the 1992 Campaign by Lynda Lee Kaid A Time for Change in American Politics: The Issue of the 1992 Presidential Election by Rachel L. Holloway Voter Rationality and Media Excess: Image in the 1992 Presidential Campaign by Alan Louden Television News and the Advertising-Driven New Mass Media Election: A More Significant Local Role in 1992? by Montague Kern and Robert H. Wicks The Electronic Town Hall in Campaign '92: Interactive Forum or Carnival of Buncombe? by Dan Nimmo Video Verite: C-SPAN Covers the Candidates by Jannette Kenner Muir Selected Bibliography

ROBERT E. DENTON JR. is Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the editor of two Praeger Series, Political Communication and Presidential Studies, and is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books, including The Media and the Persian Gulf War (Praeger, 1993), Ethical Dimensions of Political Communication (Praeger, 1991), and Political Communication in America (second edition) (Praeger, 1990).

• Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments A Communication Model of Presidential Campaigns: A 1992 Overview by Robert E. Denton, Jr. and Mary Stuckey The Early Campaign by Judith S. Trent The 1992 Presidential Nominating Conventions: Cordial Concurrence Revisited by David Timmerman and Larry David Smith The 1992 Presidential Debates by Robert V. Friedenberg Political Advertising in the 1992 Campaign by Lynda Lee Kaid A Time for Change in American Politics: The Issue of the 1992 Presidential Election by Rachel L. Holloway Voter Rationality and Media Excess: Image in the 1992 Presidential Campaign by Alan Louden Television News and the Advertising-Driven New Mass Media Election: A More Significant Local Role in 1992? by Montague Kern and Robert H. Wicks The Electronic Town Hall in Campaign '92: Interactive Forum or Carnival of Buncombe? by Dan Nimmo Video Verite: C-SPAN Covers the Candidates by Jannette Kenner Muir Selected Bibliography