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...campaign costs relatively little, consisting mainly of lawn signs, and door-to-door and telephone canvassing, but Toomey says the door-to-door work isn't as effective as it was when he started in politics more than 30 years...
This small, at best interesting, film is followed by Salesman, which begs to be taken much more seriously. The Maysles followed a group of four door-to-door bible salesman in their journey through New England and Florida. In the breadth of the settings, there is a suggestion of something grand, perhaps a statement about loneliness in America. When Paul Brennan, the protagonist, tells his companions that the bible business must be good in Alaska, one is reminded of the scene in Five Easy Pieces where a hitchhiker proclaims the virtues of cleanliness in Alaska to Jack Nicholson...
Albert Maysles freely admits that the film is intended to bear implications for America, but there's something slightly dishonest about the project. Door-to-door salesmen and their customers are among the most disenfranchised people in the country. (Perhaps the only sort of alienation that can match that of men who will take to the road to sell bibles and themselves is the alienation of people who will allow them into their living rooms and listen to their spiels, if only to hear a human voice.) In the Maysles' film, we see only Hunter S. Thompson...
Slowly but surely, you learn the details of the job. You will go to a city or suburb in the Southwest and sell two dictionaries and another set of books door-to-door...
Southwestern Publishing sells dictionaries and encyclopedia-like book sets to student salesmen, who then sell the books door-to-door. Southwestern employed 6800 college students last year, more than anyone but the federal government, and expects to hire between 7000 and 8000 this summer...