Whistle-Stop Politics: Campaign Trains and the Reporters Who Covered Them, written by Edward Segal, the nation's top expert on the history of campaign trains in American politics, will be published on February 13, 2024. 

Filled with engaging anecdotes and striking images, this book is an exciting journey back into America's political past, opening new windows into the personalities and political campaigns that shaped our history. Learn more about the book at WhistleStopPolitics.com. 

Segal is one of the few people who has planned a modern-day whistle-stop campaign train tour and served as a campaign manager, press secretary, and aide to Democratic and Republican presidential and congressional candidates. 

"Memories of the pivotal role campaign trains played in American elections fade with the passing of each generation," Segal observed. "Whistle-Stop Politics?explores the pivotal role of the trains in American elections and the riveting stories documented by the reporters who traveled with hundreds of whistle-stopping politicians, including Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan," he said. 

For more than 185 years, campaign trains were the backdrop of political drama, intrigue, humor, and triumph, an American invention that enabled politicians to connect with as many voters as possible in the country's largest cities and smallest towns. 

Segal noted that "Campaign trains are still important to politicians as backdrops for photo ops that attract the attention of the media. In their expanded role as 'eye candy,'the trains fulfill their original purpose: helping politicians reach and communicate with as many people as possible. The tactic was so effective that it's been copied in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Germany, and Great Britain." 

Segal is available to discuss these and other campaign train-related topics: 

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