Campaign Manager

Campaign Manager

Campaign Manager

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Campaign Manager

1964

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This brief portrait follows 28-year-old campaign manager John Grenier as he maps out strategies for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run and engineers a takeover of the Republican convention.

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