{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-president-1968-9780061900648","title":"The Making of the President 1968","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --\u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third book in Theodore H. White's landmark series, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1968\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960\u003c\/em\u003e, a narrative that won the Pulitzer Prize for revolutionizing the way that presidential campaigns were reported. Now, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1968\u003c\/em\u003e--back in print, freshly repackaged, and with a new foreword by Chris Matthews--joins Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy, White's \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960, 1964, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e1972\u003c\/em\u003e, and other classics in the burgeoning Harper Perennial Political Classics series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite, Theodore H.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTheodore 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 \u003cem\u003eThunderOut of China\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmerica in Search of Itself\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eIn Search of History: A Personal Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727749746962,"sku":"9780061900648","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1e775f9-c431-4faa-b397-f20c960dba74.jpg?v=1734920580","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-making-of-the-president-1968-9780061900648","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}