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The Making of the President 1960 (Harper Perennial Political Classics) ペーパーバック – 2009/11/3
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A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy.
The Making of the President: 1960 revolutionized the way modern presidential campaigns are reported. Reporting from within the campaign for the first time on record, White’s extensive research and access to all parties involved set the bar for campaign coverage and remains unparalleled. White conveyed, in magnificent detail and with exquisite pacing, the high-stakes drama; he painted the unforgettable, even mythic, story of JFK versus Nixon; and most of all, he imbued the nation’s presidential election process with a grandeur that later political writers have rarely matched.
- 本の長さ432ページ
- 言語英語
- 発売日2009/11/3
- 寸法3.05 x 13.21 x 20.07 cm
- ISBN-100061900605
- ISBN-13978-0061900600
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“A notable achievement. White has written a fascinating story of a fascinating campaign.” — Time magazine
“No book that I know of has caught the heartbeat of a campaign as strikingly as Theodore White has done in The Making of the President 1960.” — New York Times
“A masterpiece . . . full of deep insights into political power in America and how our democracy works in choosing the President. It gripped me from beginning to end as very few books have.” — William L. Shirer
“More than a fascinating account of how one man succeeded in reaching the White House, while other failed; it is a graduate lesson in the rough, relentless, subtle and devious workings of American politics. It is a magnificent job of reporting, but it is also history.” — Saturday Review
“[White] revolutionized the art of political reporting.” — William F. Buckley
著者について
Theodore H. White (1915–1986) was an American political journalist, historian,and novelist, best known for the Making of the President series: his accounts of the1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections, all of which are being reissued withnew forewords by Harper Perennial Political Classics. His other books include ThunderOut of China, America in Search of Itself, and In Search of History: A Personal Adventure.
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- 出版社 : Harper Perennial; Reissue版 (2009/11/3)
- 発売日 : 2009/11/3
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 432ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0061900605
- ISBN-13 : 978-0061900600
- 寸法 : 3.05 x 13.21 x 20.07 cm
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 76,236位洋書 (洋書の売れ筋ランキングを見る)
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Golden Slumber2014年2月20日にカナダでレビュー済み
5つ星のうち5.0 Political writing at its best
Amazonで購入I have not read a lot of political books but if I can find more like this one, I'll be reading a lot more. Theodore White was a brilliant political journalist who was able to assemble his extensive collection of interviews, articles, notes and personal political experiences to write this engrossing analysis of the 1960 election campaign. Political authors can sometimes be too detailed in their reporting and storytelling but I found this book fascinating from start to finish. It's no wonder it won a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1962! Mr. White also wrote similar books for the campaigns of '64, '68, '72 and '80 and I will likely read all of them. A highly recommended read!
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Wayne Cork2015年6月13日に英国でレビュー済み
5つ星のうち5.0 This is possibly the best political book I have ever read
Amazonで購入This is possibly the best political book I have ever read. The detail is spectacular, the clarity of prose and the authority of the writer is unquestionable. White is clearly a student of men and a lover of politics and through this he presents his account of the dramatic 1960 election. The most impactful moments are often of the candidates as men, living this experience of trying to become president. The impact it has on them and how they account for themselves; Kennedys good humour to deflect unwanted attention and Nixon's inability to ask for help even as he struggled stand out as examples.
White offers fantastic asides, some of the most interesting passages, on items which affect the outcome of the election, for instance the changing demographics of the nation from 1850 to 1960 or the changes in the roles of the primaries are deeply engaging insights.
While the book does suffer a little from its ageing, it remains a wonderful combination of character driven drama and historical detail. Highly recommended.
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jjlaw2011年1月8日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
5つ星のうち5.0 great great history
Amazonで購入White was what another reviewer here has called a "genteel liberal", a man born into culture and privelege who was something of an idealist and perhaps more like the image of the Kennedys than the Kennedys themselves. This work is better than the 1960 book primarily because there is less Kennedy man-love. The whole 1960 tone reads like a long love letter to JFK, full of "the candidate sat wearily, closing his still sharp blue eyes behind which lay thoughts unknown perhaps even to himself, this time in his cream slacks, brown loafers and a tweed jacket, gazing wistfully out over the dunes of Hyannisport like a knight after a necessary but distasteful duel....". This volume has only about two or three chapters on the ill-fated crazy train of Bobby Kennedy's candidacy. Personally I think Bobby would have lost to Nixon. So what we do get with the less man-love is a more objective account, with White's liberalism perhaps sliding into doubt in the face of the turmoil of race riots, Vietnam, student protests and assassinations. White is puzzled by all this, much less certain than he was in 1960. What makes this a great history is that White was also a thinker, albeit a liberal one, and it is an education to try to watch him make sense of events through a liberal perspective. This is essential reading for any American born in the 1970s or later and can still explain events today. Why is Detroit bankrupt today? One might start with the fact it nearly burnt to the ground in 1967/68. White flight was not, as many history textbooks in schools like to say, an irrational response to irrational fears, it was the only response to a very real fear. On civil rights, it is an eye opener to read from the optimism of 1960, with even Nixon alienating part of his conference in Chicago by pushing for a firmer civil rights plank - which many say lost him winnable states like Louisiana, and thus the election - through to the riots of 67/68. To put it politely and mildly, it is sad to say that the legally priveleged blacks and recent influx of other minorities into America have probably taken far more than they have given back to their hosts, the white population of what is now a fast dwindling majority, imperilling the USA into a slide into a dangerous, divided large third world nation more like Brazil. This history, the slide of the great power also chronicles the slow death, a necessary one, of white liberalism. White is perhaps at his best here when he chronicles the protest behaviour of the student masses, as he correctly states 'the children of the bourgeoisie'. On the infiltration of extreme viewpoints into American education I recommend reading a great, but controversial work, Culture of Critique by MacDonald (scroll down the many reviews and you might find one from your humble reviewer). White is sometimes much of prophet, particularly when he muses on the size and rising power of the American college system. Why does a nation need so many students, he asks? Over 100,000 students studying international affairs, yet only about 150 jobs annually available at the state department. These figures are probably even higher today. Worth thinking about, as the continuing and perhaps never-ending, as the dollar loses international status, financial crisis hits the MBAs, law schools and other parts of the American education for profit industry.
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Grahameducato2014年5月27日に英国でレビュー済み
5つ星のうち5.0 The Making of the President 1960
Amazonで購入I had to study this as part of a politics course at University in 1967. Study it I did. But what I never realised then was what a superb, well written book it is. Back then it was a ground breaking book, the first of its kind. Its the inside story of Kennedy's election in 1960, a fly-on-the-wall insight into how the American electoral system works on the ground. Absorbing and very readable, un-put-downable, like a good novel.
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thor6192012年4月21日にカナダでレビュー済み
5つ星のうち5.0 Re-read after 50 years
Amazonで購入In this US election season, I wanted to re-read this excellent book, covering a tight election with a very good, young team of political operatives.