Campaign of the Century Audiobook Libro.fm

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Based on massive new research a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth centurys closest election

The 1960 presidential election between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of the twentieth century yet the accounts to date have been remarkably unbalanced Far more attention is given to Kennedys side than to Nixons The imbalance began with the first book on that election Theodore Whites The Making of the President 1960in which as he later admitted White deliberately cast Kennedy as the hero and Nixon as the villainand it has been perpetuated in almost every book since then Few historians have attempted an unbiased account of the election and none have done the archival research that Irwin F Gellman has done Based on previously unused sources such as the FBIs surveillance of JFK and the papers of Leon Jaworski vicepresidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge and many others this book presents the first evenhanded history of both the primary campaigns and the general election The result is a fresh engaging chronicle that shatters longheld myths and reveals the strengths and weaknesses of both candidates