Kennedy V. Nixon: The Presidential Election of 1960 - Hardcover

Kallina Jr., Edmund F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081303485X ISBN 13: 9780813034850

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2010

Synopsis

For almost half a century The Making of the President, 1960 has stood as the standard work on this topic. Kallina has exposed the mythology of Theodore White's description of Camelot. For the first time we have an unbiased portrayal of what happened before, during, and after that pivotal election.--Irving F. Gellman, author of The Contender: Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952 "Readers will never look at the historic 1960 election the same way again."--Matthew Corrigan, author of Race, Religion, and Economic Change in the Republican South Kennedy v. Nixon is a book for everyone who thinks they know what happened in the pivotal election year of 1960. For fifty years we've accepted Theodore White's premise (from The Making of the President, 1960) that Kennedy ran a brilliant campaign while Nixon committed blunder after blunder. But White the journalist was a Kennedy partisan and helped establish the myth of Camelot. Now, five decades l

About this title

About the Author:

Edmund F. Kallina Jr. is professor of history at the University of Central Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 081303485X
• ISBN 13: 9780813034850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384