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The Making of the President 1964
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 secondvolume of his groundbreaking series, White offers an intimate chronicleof the 1964 campaign for the White Hou...more
ebook, 480 pages
Published
December 14th 2010
by HarperCollins e-books
(first published January 1st 1966)
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Reading all the Theodore White "making of the president" books this summer to try and find parallels with the present campaign. 1964 seems to be the closest so far: social welfare Democratic president running agains...Ron Paul. No, in this case, Barry Goldwater, who was more interventionist than Ron Paul is. Still, their views on the evil government are/were pretty similar. LBJ ran away with this one, (not many people noticing his huge negatives) and Goldwater's campaign staff ran a fairly profe...more
If you want to find the origins of today's Tea Party and how Republicans degenerated from middle-of-the-road pragmatism to right-wing extremism, look here, in Theodore White's story of Barry Goldwater's victory over his Republican opponent and landslide defeat by New Dealer Lyndon Johnson. This is as fine a work of journalism and sociology as you'll find, a contemporary history of a pivotal moment in American history -- wherein the participants are only partially aware of just how pivotal it wou...more
1. One of the most important person in the 1964 U.S. Elections is not even physically present during the entire proceeding. JFK died but his lasting influence in the electoral contest cannot be denied. His predecessor Lyndon Baines Johnson had both both the luck and misfortune of inheriting an administration on the road to a new frontier. The position fell into his lap in the wake of a national tragedy. A man of lesser substance will most likely succumb to the pressure of presiding over a grievi...more
White attempts to capture the inner workings of the 1964 election, yet he displays a tendency throughout the book to memorialize JFK. Also, at times, the book bogs down in minutae - such as when he gives several pages of housing statistics concerning black people in large cities, or when he talks about the % of votes that Johnson and Goldwater each got in certain regions of the country, compared with what Kennedy and Nixon got, respectively, in the 1960 election. There are some interesting parts...more
May 23, 2012
Erik Graff
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political junkies
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I recall reading White's second Making of the President book on the patio of our Michigan neighbors, the Malmstadts. Evangelical Christians, they spent part of the year in Hawaii where the father was rector of a fundamentalist college, leaving their mainland home unoccupied. Escaping my own family, I'd spend whole days there with my dog, Jimmy Olsen, reading in a comfortable deck chair, looking up occasionally to gaze at the lake through the trees.
The 1964 campaign was ostensibly between the war...more
The 1964 campaign was ostensibly between the war...more
A well-written story about America in 1964, when the civil rights struggle was the domestic issue of the day and the Vietnam War had not become the polarizing event that it became. The book begins by telling the readers what we already knew -- that Lyndon Johnson's victory had been a sure thing ever since that dark day in Dallas in November 1963 when John F. Kennedy was murdered and Johnson became president. Nevertheless, the book is well written and worth reading. Theodore White was one of the...more
Good account, but not as exciting to read as his book on the 1960 election after the Kennedy assassination.
A bit less inspiring than the 1960 story.
Following John F Kennedy's assassination in Nov '63, Lyndon Johnson attempts to win a term on his own against arch-conservative Barry Goldwater. Goldwater's campaign is a disaster but provides a forum for future president Ronald Reagan. Mitt Romney's father, George Romney is also a '64 candidate.
The Making of the President 1964 by Theodore H. White is amazingly detailed, interesting, and knowledgeable. One of the best political books I have read so far.
Most often insightful and thorough, at times too verbose, this is a must read for anyone watching the present presidential contest closely.
Apr 09, 2013
Santiano Guillen
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Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections.
White became one of Time magazine's first foreign correspondents, serving in East Asia and later as a European correspondent. He is best known for his accounts of two presidential elections, The Making of the President, 1960 (1961...more
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White became one of Time magazine's first foreign correspondents, serving in East Asia and later as a European correspondent. He is best known for his accounts of two presidential elections, The Making of the President, 1960 (1961...more
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