The Making of the President 1972: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning

The Making of the President 1972: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Account of Richard Nixon's 1972 Campaign and Historic Landslide (Landmark Political)

In The Making of the President 1972, the fourth volume of narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore H. White brings his defining quartet of campaign narratives to a surprising and riveting close. The consummate journalist, White chronicles both the Democratic and the Republican parties as they jockeyed for position toward the end of Richard M. Nixon’s turbulent first term. He illuminates the cinematic moments that shaped the campaign—the attempt on George Wallace’s life, Edmund Muskie crying in the snow in New Hampshire, the swift rise and fall of Tom Eagleton, and the ongoing anguish of Vietnam—leading inexorably to a second chaotic collapse among the Democrats and a landslide victory for Nixon. Yet even as the president’s highest ambitions were confirmed, White watches aghast as the “new Nixon” of 1968 is eclipsed by the corrupt Nixon of old—a Shakespearean conclusion to an astonishing political epoch.
Country USA
Brand Harper Perennial
Manufacturer Harper Perennial
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, black and white
ReleaseDate 2010-10-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780061900679

Country	USA
Brand	Harper Perennial
Manufacturer	Harper Perennial
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, black and white
ReleaseDate	2010-10-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780061900679

The Making of the President 1972: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Account of Richard Nixon's 1972 Campaign and Historic Landslide (Landmark Political)