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

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non fiction

The making of the President, 1960

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Theodore H. White

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

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