"With a new foreword by Chris Matthews"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword to the 2010 edition -- Author's note -- Part One -- 1: Tet!-the shadow on the walls -- 2: Republicans: return from exile -- 3: Democrats: the struggle for the inheritance -- Part Two -- Interpassage -- 4: Lyndon Johnson: the renunciation -- 5: Inevitability of Richard M Nixon -- 6: Robert F Kennedy: requiescat in pacem -- 7: Appetite for apocalypse: the issue of law-and-order -- 8: Mirage at Miami: Rockefeller versus Nixon -- 9: Chicago convention: the furies in the street -- Part Three -- Interpassage -- 10: September: new shape in the darkness -- 11: October: all passion spent -- 12: Election: passage in the night -- 13: Season for survival: the America of Richard M Nixon -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Index.
Summary:
From the Publisher: In The Making of the President 1968, 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.
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