Hendon is an Illinois state senator from the west side of Chicago, and has served as assistant majority leader there for the past decade. He also serves as consultant and manager on the campaigns of many other politicians, and so has some sense of what does and does not work. Here he offers a handbook for anyone thinking of running for office, giving advice for getting on the ballot, staying on the ballot, and winning. Among his perspectives are the challenge stage, strategy and use of volunteers, door-to-door campaigning, ancillary campaign activities, fundraising, forming alliances, the final push, protecting your vote at the warehouse, and the post mortem. There is no index. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)