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4 unusual facts about The Boys on the Bus


Catherine Mackin

Her report later that year on President Nixon's re-election campaign, in which she stated that the President was saying things about opponent George McGovern that were untrue, was highlighted in Timothy Crouse's book, The Boys on the Bus.

Pye Chamberlayne

He was a subject of The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse's account of news coverage of the 1972 U.S. presidential campaign.

The Boys on the Bus

Several very recognizable reporters, whose bylines could be seen into the 21st century, are at turns critiqued, lampooned and glorified within the book, including R.W. "Johnny" Apple, Robert Novak, Walter Mears, Haynes Johnson, David Broder, Hunter S. Thompson and Jules Witcover, not to mention the politicians they were covering: Richard M. Nixon and George McGovern.

The book was one of the first treatises on pack journalism ever to be published, following in the footsteps of Gay Talese's 1969 "fly on the wall" look into the New York Times called The Kingdom and the Power.



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