Book: Campaigning has always been dirty

“Project President: Bad Hair & Botox on the Road to the White House” (Thomas Nelson, 304 pages. $22.99), by Ben Shapiro: With the presidential election still 10 months away, voters seem to be tiring of political posturing, endless debates and negative ads. It’s enough to make a voter nostalgic for the good ol’ days.

You know, the days when politicians put the country’s needs first, when informed voters favored substance over style, when campaigns were free of the endless mudslinging of recent generations.

The only problem is, those good ol’ days never existed.

In “Project President,” syndicated columnist Ben Shapiro demonstrates how voters have been swayed by superficiality since the birth of our nation.

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