The making of the president 1968 - theodore h. white

White unites a novelists knack of dramatization and a historians sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels.

-- Newsweek The third book in Theodore H.

Whites landmark series, The Making of the President 1968 is the compelling account of the turbulent 1968 presidential campaign, the assassinations of Robert F.

Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.

, and election of Richard Nixon.

White made history with his groundbreaking The Making of the President 1960 , a narrative that won the Pulitzer Prize for revolutionizing the way that presidential campaigns were reported.

Now, The Making of the President 1968 --back in print, freshly repackaged, and with a new foreword by Chris Matthews--joins Theodore Sorensens Kennedy, Whites The Making of the President 1960, 1964, and 1972 , and other classics in the burgeoning Harper Perennial Political Classics series.