To experience life on the campaign trail, it doesn’t get much better than this David Foster Wallace piece about the 2000 campaign. (This, however, is on my to-read list for holidays.)
But for a good look on the unending campaign — plus insights into how the Clinton campaign turned urinals into a press work room, the analogous nature of porn and presidential nominees and how Chuck Norris fit into the ’08 election — this mini-memoir from Newsweek‘s Michael Hastings is a pretty impressive read.