G. Scott Thomas has been a journalist for more than thirty years.

As the book's title indicates, the duel for the presidency between Kennedy and Nixon lies at the center of the narrative, which is appropriate since both men, as well as the legacies they left, continued to play key factors in our politics throughout the decade. But Thomas also casts a wider net. Using a month-by-month approach, he covers a variety of emerging forces, including civil rights, decolonization in the Third World, and environmentalism. This is a fine retrospective that indicates how we got here from there.

• Acknowledgments1 Prologue: The Spirit of Camp David2 January: Around the Next Corner3 February: Striding Toward Freedom4 March: The Wind of Change5 April: Paper Tigers6 May: Spoiling for a Fight7 June: Off Again, On Again8 July: The New Frontier9 August: Beginning to Stir10 September: Substance and Appearance11 October: A Suitcase of Votes12 November: The Help of a Few Close Friends13 December: The Can-Do Society14 Epilogue: Passing the TorchNotesBibliographyIndex

G. Scott Thomas has been a journalist for more than thirty years.

As the book's title indicates, the duel for the presidency between Kennedy and Nixon lies at the center of the narrative, which is appropriate since both men, as well as the legacies they left, continued to play key factors in our politics throughout the decade. But Thomas also casts a wider net. Using a month-by-month approach, he covers a variety of emerging forces, including civil rights, decolonization in the Third World, and environmentalism. This is a fine retrospective that indicates how we got here from there.

• Acknowledgments1 Prologue: The Spirit of Camp David2 January: Around the Next Corner3 February: Striding Toward Freedom4 March: The Wind of Change5 April: Paper Tigers6 May: Spoiling for a Fight7 June: Off Again, On Again8 July: The New Frontier9 August: Beginning to Stir10 September: Substance and Appearance11 October: A Suitcase of Votes12 November: The Help of a Few Close Friends13 December: The Can-Do Society14 Epilogue: Passing the TorchNotesBibliographyIndex

G. Scott Thomas has been a journalist for more than thirty years.

As the book's title indicates, the duel for the presidency between Kennedy and Nixon lies at the center of the narrative, which is appropriate since both men, as well as the legacies they left, continued to play key factors in our politics throughout the decade. But Thomas also casts a wider net. Using a month-by-month approach, he covers a variety of emerging forces, including civil rights, decolonization in the Third World, and environmentalism. This is a fine retrospective that indicates how we got here from there.

• Acknowledgments1 Prologue: The Spirit of Camp David2 January: Around the Next Corner3 February: Striding Toward Freedom4 March: The Wind of Change5 April: Paper Tigers6 May: Spoiling for a Fight7 June: Off Again, On Again8 July: The New Frontier9 August: Beginning to Stir10 September: Substance and Appearance11 October: A Suitcase of Votes12 November: The Help of a Few Close Friends13 December: The Can-Do Society14 Epilogue: Passing the TorchNotesBibliographyIndex