The Making of the President 1960 (Harper Perennial Political Classics)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: November 3, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780061900600
Subjects: History -- Americas -- United States -- 20th Century; Nonfiction -- Government -- Elections; Nonfiction -- Politics -- U.S.; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Political Science -- United States
Description: 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.