In The Making of the President: 1968, the third volume in the groundbreaking series that revolutionized American political journalism, Theodore H. White offers a riveting account of one of the most turbulent presidential campaigns in history: the 1968 contest that put Richard Nixon in the White House.

1968 was a year of political unrest throughout the United States, and White chronicles a campaign that was equally dramatic. Tragic and triumphant, the 1968 election saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, violent protests in the streets of Chicago, and a dramatic neck-and-neck finish between Nixon and his tenacious opponent Hubert Humphrey. With a forward by Chris Matthews, The Making of the President: 1968 is the definitive recounting of this history-making election.

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 the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections. White won a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for The Making of the President: 1960, and is the author of the critically acclaimed America in Search of Itself.

" White] revolutionized the art of political reporting." -- William F. Buckley

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/01/2010
ISBN: 9780061900648
Pages: 527
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.99d