<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> While Bryan stumped up and down the land, McKinley let the voters come to his lawn in Canton—and they came</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Who runs the country? Administrative agencies. Who runs the administrative agencies? Well, there was this road they were going to put right through the old Rockefeller place, and …</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Presidential candidates stayed above the battle until William Jennings Bryan stumped the nation in 1896; they’ve been in the thick of it ever since</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A noted historian argues that television, a relative newcomer, has nearly destroyed old—and valuable—political traditions</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The ground rules have changed drastically since 1789. Abigail Adams, stifled in her time, would have loved being First Lady today.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It took place in 1948, and it was orchestrated, with difficulty, by the program director of a faltering Portland, Oregon radio station. He persuaded two Republican candidates to argue formally about an actual issue, with no moderator.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It’s not surprising that Democrats seek to wrap themselves in the Roosevelt cloak; what’s harder to understand is why so many Republicans do, too. A distinguished historian explains.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">To keep Upton Sinclair from becoming governor of California in 1934, his opponents invented a whole new kind of campaign.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A year ago, we were in the midst of a presidential campaign most memorable for charges by both sides that the opponent was not hard enough, tough enough, masculine enough. That he was, in fact, a sissy. Both sides also admitted that this sort of rhetoric was deplorable. But it’s been going on since the beginning of the republic.</span></p>
