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S'està carregant… The Making of the President 1968 (1969)de Theodore H. White
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Again, an amazing series that is a must for anybody that is interested in America politics throughout the 60s and 70s. This was a landmark work and still has much to give in this modern age. ( ) A generally good account that tends to fall prey to White's characteristic veneration of the winner as if they are a saintly classical hero (particularly ironic given the way Nixon's presidency ended). This extends to strange self-contradictions such as the chapter which insists the Nixon "southern strategy" was a myth before then going on to describe the Nixon campaign deliberately stoking concern in southern whites along racial lines to make Nixon feel like the safer choice. That was the southern strategy which White denied the existence of pages earlier and is just one example (to my mind, the most egregious) of the massaging of history to fit White's preferred "cometh the hour, cometh the man" narrative approach. Ho-hum. In the years before Jack Germond and Jules Witcover started collaborating on accounts of presidential elections, Theodore H. White was pretty much the only game in town, for anyone looking for a one-volume, accessible chronicle of a presidential election. White's reputation as a journalist was made as a reporter for Time magazine, in China, but he will always be remembered as a "presidential historian," which is unfortunate. Political and historical junkies will find far more "inside information" in the books by Witcover and Germond, without any of the stuffiness. Not recommended. Mr. White, starting in 1960 covered every USA presidential election with a slight Democratic bias. The books are clear and useful starting places for the student. Hunter Thompson is livelier, but not so trustworthy as regards facts. The world was saddened by the resurrection of Richard Nixon after the more progressive Johnson administration, but Nixon promised an end to the messy police action in Vietnam so he was let back in. It didn't work out. But if one is looking for an artifact of a simpler and faux-golden era it is a useful book. To fully appreciate this book, you may want to start by reading The Making of the President 1960, becuase in the ensuing 8 years, the nature and tenor of Presidential campaigns changed markedly. And for the worse. Reading this is a vivid reminder of the tumultuous times that were the late 1960s, and how they made so many people so uncomfortable -- so reactionary. While certainly not written to be a "thriller" it's hard not to get caught up in the energy and twists and turns of this turningpoint election -- an election that was the harbinger of Reagan's victory 12 years later. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"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." --Newsweek The 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 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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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