This is a perfectly timed compendium for anyone skeptical about the power of rhetoric during a campaign, or (come on, admit it!) anyone who’s been completely mesmerized. Mr. Cohen draws upon a rich context.” - The New York Observer
“The offerings in Michael A. Cohen’s “Live From the Campaign Trail” meet a need. They also help to define a genre worth paying attention to, since politicians speak differently from the stump than they do from their desks in the Senate or from the Inaugural podium. Campaign rhetoric in its more memorable forms, as Mario Cuomo once noted, is more poetry than prose, aiming at the heart instead of the head … Mr. Cohen’s informed narrative and perceptive analysis illuminate the addresses he gathered, particularly the handful of speeches he unearthed from the near-oblivion of shorthand.” — Wall Street Journal