Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Part Tyranny

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As the national campaign manager for Ralph Nader's runs for president in 2000 and 2004, Theresa Amato had a rare ringside role in the last two hotly contested presidential elections. The only woman ever to have managed two high-profile American presidential campaigns, she gives readers both an inside look at and a witty, thoughtful critique of the American electoral system, shattering the myth that anyone can grow up and run for president.

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"Until you have run, as I did, outside the two major parties, it is impossible to imagine the injustices of the two-party-tilted electoral process. Theresa Amato masterfully exposes the horrors faced by third-party and Independent candidates seeking the chance to compete and provide political choices for the American voter."
—John Anderson, former Independent presidential candidate and chair of the Center for Voting and Democracy

"Theresa Amato takes the biggest swing--not a jab, but a roundhouse punch--at America's corrupt electoral system."
—Phil Donahue

Author Bio

Theresa Amato was the national presidential campaign manager and in-house counsel for Ralph Nader in both 2000 and 2004. A graduate of Harvard University and NYU School of Law, she founded the Citizen Advocacy Center in suburban Chicago and works with many nonprofit organizations. She has been a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Wasserstein Public Interest Law Fellow at Harvard Law School. A practicing lawyer, Amato lives with her family in Oak Park, Illinois.