Until now, the most authoritative study of the 1960 presidential race between John F Kennedy, Lynden B Johnson and Richard Nixon, was Theodore White's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Making of the President 1960". But White, as a trusted insider, didn't tell all. Here's the rest of the story - combining an engaging narrative with exhaustive research, Pietrusza chronicles this pivotal election in which presidential debates were first televised, showing a tentative and exhausted Nixon - thus forever altering American politics, as with 80 million viewers passing judgment, Nixon's poll numbers dropped as the charismatic Kennedy's star rose. Nixon learned his lesson - but the damage was done. Pietrusza conveys the drama of that tumultuous year, all built on painstaking research and solid historical scholarship. With the 2008 American elections approaching, politics will be on everyone's mind and "1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon" will transform the way readers see modern American history.
- ISBN10 1402761147
- ISBN13 9781402761140
- Publish Date 1 September 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Sterling Publishing Co Inc
- Imprint Union Square Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 544
- Language English