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Reading Conventions: Political Stories from 1988

Author's Preface: The following might most appropriately be described as a literary analysis of a political event. That is to say it examines the 1988 nominating conventions the way more conventional "texts" are typically studied, reading them as though they were "authored" in a manner comparable to a novel or poem. The point is to see how the shape, even the aesthetics of the thing being considered, might inform our general understanding of its nature and implications even if it was not composed in the usual way. Like all stories, those that unfolded in Atlanta and New Orleans were rooted in events that had taken place years earlier, and, like all important stories, they have a life that continues beyond 1988.