THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT--1964

by Theodore H. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 7, 1965

Starting with Kennedy's assassination, when the political machine locked gears, White tells the story with the energy that invested his bestselling The Making of the President (1960). His pen portraits of the initial contenders are sharp and have all the appeal of the stick-your-neck-out statement and judgment about people and events. White assesses the Civil Rights issue as the great turning/dividing point of the election. He gives it the same instructive, analytic, well argued treatment he applied to the religious issue of the Kennedy/Nixon campaign. Once again, critics may complain that White has been forced to be selective, but younger readers are more likely to respond to his forthrightness on matters that have been obliquely handled in the periodical press -- the Rockefeller divorce, Jenkins' homosexuality and Johnson's performance at the Democratic Convention. Everybody lived through the election campaign, but White saw it closer and tells it better.

Pub Date: July 7, 1965

ISBN: 1597401536

Page Count: -

Publisher: Atheneum

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1965

Categories: NONFICTION