Terry Baxter gives us a peek under the flap of the tent we call a national political campaign–hilarious, intense, exhausting, and ultimately rewarding. –Bill Brock, former U.S. Senator, U.S. Trade Representative, Secretary of Labor, and Chairman of the Republican National Committee. An elite team from the White House staff travels ahead of the president to arrange campaign appearances, state visits, or international summit meetings. They carry the privilege of being the personal representatives of the president of the United States. They preside over events as mundane as a routine presidential visit, or as significant as a moment that will create history. They are White House advancemen.

November’s Gladiators is the inside story of the raucous teams that produced the celebrated Ronald Reagan presidential campaigns. It captures the grit of the democratic process and the often-hilarious highs and lows that accompany the road warriors as they invade small towns across America.