| Edition |
First Harper Perennial Political Classics edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 400 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Author's note -- Part 1 -- 1: Waiting -- 2: Democrats: first stirrings -- 3: Republicans: first stirrings -- 4: Art of the primary: Wisconsin and West Virginia -- 5: Pre-convention: Democrats -- 6: Rendezvous at Los Angeles: the democratic convention -- 7: Republicans: from the summit to Chicago -- Part 2 -- Prologue -- 8: Retrospect on yesterday's future -- 9: Kennedy for president: round one -- 10: Nixon for president: round one -- 11: Round two: the television debates -- 12: Nixon for president: round three -- 13: Kennedy for president: round three -- 14: To wake as president -- 15: View from the White House -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Index. |
| Summary |
Examines the plans and campaigns of the seven candidates in the year leading up to the presidential election of 1960. |
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Overview: The Making of the President 1960 is the book that revolutionized-even created-modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all parties involved, Theodore White crafted an almost mythic story of the battle that pitted Senator John F. Kennedy against Vice-President Richard M. Nixon-from the decisive primary battles to the history-making televised debates, the first of their kind. Magnificently detailed and exquisitely paced, The Making of the President 1960 imbues the nation's presidential election process with both grittiness and grandeur, and established a benchmark against which all new campaign reporters would measure their work. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction-and the first entry in White's influential four-volume "narrative history of American politics in action"--This classic account remains the keystone of American political journalism. |
| Subject |
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1960.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
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Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. (OCoLC)fst00035588
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Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. (OCoLC)fst00031384
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Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
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Presidents -- Election.
(OCoLC)fst01075747
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
9780061900600 |
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0061900605 |
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