ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1966
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Theodore H. White - The Making of the President 1960
Pocket Books, 1966
481 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

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.

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.

What is a presidential election? `The most awesome transfer of power in the world—, the power to marshal & mobilize, the power to send men to kill or be killed, the power to tax & destroy, the power to create & the responsibility to do so, the power to guide & the responsibility to heal —all committed into the hands of one man.` These words, written by Theodore H. White in the opening chapter of this book, are as true today as when they were written over a half-century ago. His unprecedented examination of crucial campaign, in which the young, charismatic John F. Kennedy squared off against the seasoned vice president, Richard M. Nixon, is both a fascinating historical document & a compelling narrative of character & consequence. The reporter`s detailed appreciation of the instinct & experience that shape the political process is a revelation in our current age of sound bites, relentlessly chattering punditry & the all-consuming influence of tv, —an influence 1st felt in the Kennedy-Nixon debates that proved to be a critical factor in the 1960 election. Following seven candidates from the earliest stirrings of aspiration thru the rigors of the primaries, the drama of the conventions & the grueling campaigning that culminated in one of the closest electoral contests in history, White provides a valuable education in the ways & means of our political life. The Making of the President 1960 is an extraordinary document, a celebration of the genius of American democracy & an anatomy of the ambition, cunning & courage it demands from those who seek its highest office. For what it can teach us about the forces that determine the destiny of presidential candidates, it remains required reading today.
White was born in Boston in 1915. After Harvard graduation, he was recruited by John Hersey to cover E. Asia for Time, becoming chief of its China Bureau in `45. This experience inspired his 1st book, Thunder Out of China (written with Annalee Jacoby). In `48 he went to live in Europe. His experience as a European correspondent led to Fire in the Ashes, published in `53. That same year he returned to the USA to work as national correspondent for The Reporter, then for Collier`s. After its collapse in `56, he completed two novels, The Mountain Road & The View from the Fortieth Floor, in the next four years. At the time Collier`s closed, he was planning a story on `The Making of the President 1956` for the magazine. He revived the idea in the next election year, resulting in his most famous book, The Making of the President 1960, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1962. Having found his vocation as our `storyteller of elections,` he went on to produce three more Making of the President volumes, covering 1964, 1968 & 1972 campaigns. Subsequently, he was author of Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon; In Search of History: A Personal Adventure; & America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956-80. He died in 5/86.


Nonfiction, Politics