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A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy.
The Making of the President: 1960 revolutionized the way modern presidential campaigns are reported. Reporting from within the campaign for the first time on record, White’s extensive research and access to all parties involved set the bar for campaign coverage and remains unparalleled. White conveyed, in magnificent detail and with exquisite pacing, the high-stakes drama; he painted the unforgettable, even mythic, story of JFK versus Nixon; and most of all, he imbued the nation’s presidential election process with a grandeur that later political writers have rarely matched.
A narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore White’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Making of the President: 1960 revolutionized the way that the media covers modern presidential campaigns. Reporting from within a campaign for the first time on record, White’s extensive research and unprecedented access reveals more about American politics than any previous account of a presidential election.
White presents the high stakes drama of the 1960 election in magnificent detail: the behind-the-scenes drama, decisive primaries and history-making debates that led up to a victory that saw Kennedy beating out Nixon by a staggeringly narrow margin. Most of all, White shines a spotlight on the nation as it enters a decade that will bring radical change to nearly every aspect of life in the United States. Theodore H. White (1915 - 1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for The Making of the President series — his accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections. White won a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for The Making of the President: 1960, and is the author of the critically acclaimed America in Search of Itself. “No book that I know of has caught the heartbeat of a campaign as strikingly as Theodore White has done in The Making of the President 1960.” — New York TimesYou may also like
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