The making of the President, 1960 / Theodore H. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Theodore H. (Theodore Harold), 1915-1986, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.

Kennedy, John F.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.

Nixon, Richard M.

Presidents--United States--Election--1960.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.

Physical Description:

ix, 400 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atheneum Publishers, 1961.

Summary:

More than a year before the election of John F. Kennedy, Theodore H. White began to explore the secret planning and private aspirations of seven men, each of whom, in his own way, found his dreams tormented by the power that might be his in the White House. By spring, White had begun to follow the candidates through the early jousting of the primaries. Continuing through the conventions, the campaigns and the final drama of election night, he fashioned a work of contemporary history that highlights the decisions, the acts, the accidents, that created an American President, and also the cold political realities of a country upon whose decision the world of freedom waits. At once a political study of power in America, and a chronicle of individual Americans caught in the act of leadership, it was a story no other writer attempted to tell before.--Adapted from book jacket.

Contents:

Waiting

The Democrats: first stirrings

The Republicans : first stirrings

The art of the primary : Wisconsin and West Virginia

Pre-convention : Democrats

Rendezvous at Los Angeles : the Democratic Convention

The Republicans: from the summit to Chicago

Retrospect on yesterday's future

Kennedy for President : round one

Nixon for President : round one

Round two : the television debates

Nixon for President: round three

Kennedy for President : round three

To wake as President

The view from the White House

Appendix A. Final presidential vote

Appendix B. State of New York Executive Chamber Albany: following is the text of a statement released by Governor Rockefeller in New York, Saturday, July 23, 1960

Appendix C. Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy on church and state: delivered to Greater Houston Ministerial Association, Houston, Texas, Sept. 12, 1960.

Notes:

Includes index.

Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1962.

Other Format:

Online version: White, Theodore H. (Theodore Harold), 1915-1986. Making of the President, 1960.

OCLC:

169451