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<p>It was the election that would ultimately give America “Camelot” and its tragic aftermath, a momentous contest when three giants who each would have a chance to shape the nation battled to win the presidency. <BR>Award-winning author David Pietrusza does here for the 1960 presidential race what he did in his previous book, <I>1920: the Year of the Six Presidents</I>—which <I>Kirkus Reviews</I> selected as one of their Best Books of 2007. Until now, the most authoritative study of the 1960 election was Theodore White’s Pulitzer Prize-winning <I>The Making of the President, 1960</I>. But White, as a trusted insider, didn’t tell all. Here’s the rest of the story, what White could never have known, nor revealed. Finally, it’s all out—including JFK’s poignant comment on why LBJ’s nomination as vice president would be inconsequential: “I’m 43 years old. I’m not going to die in office.”<BR>Combining an engaging narrative with exhaustive research, Pietrusza chronicles the pivotal election of 1960, in which issues of civil rights and religion (Kennedy was only the second major-party Roman Catholic
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- Author
- Lyndon B Johnson;Johnson, Lyndon Baines;John F Kennedy;Kennedy, John Fitzgerald;Richard M Nixon;Nixon, Richard Milhous;Pietrusza, David
- Publisher
- Union Square Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781402777462
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Biography
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (268 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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