‘Campaigning For President’ Book is Enjoyable Vivid History

The coffee table book, “Campaigning For President,” provides a bipartisan entertaining pictorial look at the history of presidential campaigns. Austin C. Wright along with Mark Bego have now helped revive the original 2008 book by his father Jordan M. Wright. In the updated version Wright and Bego have written about the intense campaigns during 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024.

Politics and entertainment fields are very similar in that they both depend on campaign platforms to get the word out. As the best-selling rock & roll biographer, Bego was the perfect person to co-write the book with Wright highlighting presidential campaigns. As the Bego states:

Political campaigns are 90% show business, and the act of finding an audience and playing to it.

The Birth of ‘Campaigning For President’ and a Museum

Owning the largest U.S. Presidential campaign memorabilia collection made the elder Wright the perfect person to publish a book highlighting the run to winning the presidency. He published his “Campaigning For President” in 2008 and sadly passed away only months later. Upon the writer’s death, his vast collection became the foundation for a new NY institution, The Museum of Democracy.