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The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election (American Presidential Elections)
W. J. Rorabaugh
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Description for The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election (American Presidential Elections)
Paperback. Provides a corrective to the famous but flawed classic, "The Making of the President." Looks closely at the nuts and bolts of the election, and at a candidate whose hard-won victory depended upon hoards of money, an effective organization, television image-making, and LBJ's campaigning in the South." Num Pages: 250 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory—whether as an underdog’s heroic triumph or a liberal crusader’s overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this famous election to explain the nuts-and-bolts operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White’s flawed classic, The Making of the President.
Despite a less than liberal record, JFK assumed the image of liberal hero—thanks to White and other journalists who were shamelessly manipulated by the Kennedy campaign. Rorabaugh instead paints JFK as ... Read more
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory—whether as an underdog’s heroic triumph or a liberal crusader’s overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this famous election to explain the nuts-and-bolts operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White’s flawed classic, The Making of the President.
Despite a less than liberal record, JFK assumed the image of liberal hero—thanks to White and other journalists who were shamelessly manipulated by the Kennedy campaign. Rorabaugh instead paints JFK as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700618873
SKU
V9780700618873
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About W. J. Rorabaugh
W. J. Rorabaugh is professor of history at the University of Washington and author of four previous books, most recently Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties.
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