"This volume... is filled with wise observations about the ways in which technology has changed (and has failed to change) the relationship between voters and candidates. " 

-John J. Pitney, contributing editor, Reason Magazine

"To understand and weigh the complaints we will surely hear about the 1992 campaign, we ought to ask the old question, 'compared to what?' Finally, there is a book - both highly readable and solidly scholarly - that gives the answer. Gil Troy has done a first rate job." 

- Ben J. Wattenberg, author of The First Universal Nation

[Lingua Franca magazine questioned a number of scholars, journalist, and commentators which books they thought best explained and clarified American campaigns and elections.]

"[See How They Ran is] a perceptive and beautifully written study of how presidential campaigning has moved from a 'republican' model, which considered any active effort to win the presidency to 'democratic' model, which considers anyone not willing to campaign actively insufficiently committed."

-Alan Brinkley, Lingua Franca September/October 1996

"A good, telescopic view of campaigns and campaigning through the years of our experiment with democracy. Good for a serious student of what makes campaigns tick." 

- Paul Simon, United States Senator, Illinois 

"Gil Troy is a scholar who knows how to write interesting history. See How They Ran focuses on the slippery question of leadership in presidential campaigns: what the candidates package, what the electorate ultimately buys - and why." 

- Marvin Kalb, Director, The Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Harvard University 

"If you are fascinated by politics and its hurly-burly world, Gil Troy's new book will hold you enthralled. It's a crisply readable account of the political jungle." 

- Jack Valenti, Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson 

"McGill University history professor Troy offers an original, fascinating and admirably focused account of American presidential campaigns from George Washington to George Bush. ... Troy does not adopt the common view that the presidential election process has degenerated; instead he sees merely a shift in emphasis." 

Publishers Weekly October 11, 1991