Grossman, Lawrence K.2022-02-251990-01Grossman, Lawrence K. "Reflections on Television's Role in American Presidential Elections." Shorenstein Center Discussion Paper Series 1990.D-3, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 1990.https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37370886More than a century before television came on the scene, Alexis de Toqueville wrote in Democracy in America, "The press...constitutes a singular power, so strangely composed of mingled good and evil that liberty could not live without it, and public order can hardly be maintained against it." That is a remarkably perceptive description of the role that television plays in presidential politics today.en-USResearch Paper or Report2022-02-25