Making of the President, 1968

The classic narrative history the 1968 presidential election during a year in which American politics came unhinged."White unites a novelist''s knack of dramatization and a historian''s sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the lapels." —NewsweekThe third book in Theodore H. White''s 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 the 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 Sorensen''s Kennedy, White''s The Making of the President 1960, 1964, and 1972, and other classics in the burgeoning Harper Perennial Political Classics series.