The Making of the President, 1972: A Narrative History of American Politics in Action - Hardcover

White, Theodore H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689105533 ISBN 13: 9780689105531

Publisher: Atheneum Publishers, 1973

Synopsis

Explores the complex interaction of men and events that shaped the 1972 Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns

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From the Back Cover:

In The Making of the President 1972, the fourth volume of narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore H. White brings his defining quartet of campaign narratives to a surprising and riveting close. The consummate journalist, White chronicles both the Democratic and the Republican parties as they jockeyed for position toward the end of Richard M. Nixon’s turbulent first term. He illuminates the cinematic moments that shaped the campaign—the attempt on George Wallace’s life, Edmund Muskie crying in the snow in New Hampshire, the swift rise and fall of Tom Eagleton, and the ongoing anguish of Vietnam—leading inexorably to a second chaotic collapse among the Democrats and a landslide victory for Nixon. Yet even as the president’s highest ambitions were confirmed, White watches aghast as the “new Nixon” of 1968 is eclipsed by the corrupt Nixon of old—a Shakespearean conclusion to an astonishing political epoch.

About the Author:

Theodore H. White (1915–1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for the Making of the President series: his accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections, all of which are being reissued with new forewords by Harper Perennial Political Classics. His other books include Thunder Out of China, America in Search of Itself, and In Search of History: A Personal Adventure.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum Publishers
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0689105533
• ISBN 13: 9780689105531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 391