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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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe greatest political story ever told--the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e--William L. Shirer\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe greatest political story ever told--the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365569757407,"sku":"9780061900600","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/w8YdwPyqFO9780061900600.webp?v=1789066421"},{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-president-1964-paperback","title":"The Making of the President 1964 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[White] revolutionized the art of political reporting.\" --William F. Buckley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA national bestseller, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1964\u003c\/em\u003e is the critically acclaimed account of the 1964 presidential campaign, from the assassination of JFK though the battle for power between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater. Author Theodore H. White made history with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the President series--detailed narrative histories that revolutionized the way presidential campaigns were reported. Now back in print with a new foreword by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1964\u003c\/em\u003e joins \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e1968\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003e1972\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as Theodore Sorensen's \u003cem\u003eKennedy\u003c\/em\u003e and other classics, in the burgeoning Harper Perennial Political Classics series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheodore H. White's landmark Making of the President series revolutionized American political journalism, investing his subject with both epic scope and a fresh frankness about backroom political strategy that was unlike anything that had come before. In this secondvolume of his groundbreaking series, White offers an intimate chronicleof the 1964 campaign for the White House, from the earthshaking tragedy of President Kennedy's assassination through the battle for power between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater, whose candidacy paved the way for the modern conservative movement. White reports from within both campaigns, bringing to life a turbulent year in America's history and a furious contest between two tough and seasoned political pros.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365569888479,"sku":"9780061900617","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YosJjHyc-Q9780061900617.webp?v=1789066422"},{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-president-1968-paperback","title":"The Making of the President 1968 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"White unites a novelist's knack of dramatization and a historian's sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels.\" --\u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third book in Theodore H. White's landmark series, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1968\u003c\/em\u003e is the compelling account of the turbulent 1968 presidential campaign, the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and election of Richard Nixon. White made history with his groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960\u003c\/em\u003e, a narrative that won the Pulitzer Prize for revolutionizing the way that presidential campaigns were reported. Now, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1968\u003c\/em\u003e--back in print, freshly repackaged, and with a new foreword by Chris Matthews--joins Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy, White's \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960, 1964, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e1972\u003c\/em\u003e, and other classics in the burgeoning Harper Perennial Political Classics series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1968\u003c\/em\u003e, the third volume of the groundbreaking series that revolutionized American political journalism, Theodore H. White offers a compelling account of one of the most turbulent presidential campaigns in history: the 1968 election that put Richard M. Nixon in the White House. Viewing the electoral process from an insider's perspective--capturing both the vast scope and the intimate, behind-the-scenes details--White chronicles a campaign that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, was marked by protest and violence in the streets of Chicago, and that came down to a neck-and-neck finish between the tenacious but ill-starred Hubert H. Humphrey and the most fascinating politician of the modern age: the finally, unexpectedly, victorious Richard Nixon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365570052319,"sku":"9780061900648","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fgjvknToyD9780061900648.webp?v=1789066424"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/theodore-h-white.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}