1961 Common Reader Classic Bestseller. A narrative history of American politics in action. 2004 Barnes and Noble edition.

Theodore H. White's landmark Making of the President series revolutionized American political journalism, investing his subject with both epic scope and a fresh frankness about backroom political strategy that was unlike anything that had come before. In this second volume of his groundbreaking series, White offers an intimate chronicle of the 1964 campaign for the White House, from the earthshaking tragedy of President Kennedy's assassination through the battle for power between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater, whose candidacy paved the way for the modern conservative movement. White reports from within both campaigns, bringing to life a turbulent year in America's history and a furious contest between two tough and seasoned political pros.

In The Making of the President 1968, the 3rd volume of the groundbreaking series that revolutionized American political journalism, Theodore H. White offers a compelling account of one of the most turbulent presidential campaigns in history: the 1968 election that put Richard M. Nixon in the White House. Viewing the electoral process from an insider's perspective—capturing both the vast scope & the intimate, behind-the-scenes details—White chronicles a campaign that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. & presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, was marked by protest & violence in the streets of Chicago, & that came down to a neck-&-neck finish between the tenacious but ill-starred Hubert H. Humphrey & the most fascinating politician of the modern age: the finally, unexpectedly, victorious Richard Nixon.

End of the Postwar World Solitary Man Road to Cedar Point From the Liberal Idea to the Liberal Theology View from Key Biscayne Blue Collars and Bread-and-Butter Democratic Primaries A Party In Search of Identity McGovern's Army Web of Numbers: A Message from the Census to Politics Confrontation at Miami Eagleton Affair Richard Nixon's Campaign: 'Out There' Power Struggle: President versus Press Watergate Affair Shaping of the Mandate Men and Machinery Appeal to the People: Verdict in November Temptation of Power Appendix A Appendix B Index

In this last of his prize-winning series on American presidential politics, Theodore H. White tells of the dramas that lie behind that transfomation. He reveals how television took over American politics and changed its nature and how it came to undermine all American life.