The Making of the President -- 1968 by White, Theodore H - 1969

NY: Atheneum Publishers, 1969. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Book Club Edition.. 508 pp. With appendices providing a table of the popular vote and a chart of the first-round Republican delegate votes. End paper national maps showing which ways states voted in the 1952, 1960, 1964 and 1968 conventions. Binding firm, no markings, text still bright; some chipping and tears in white dust jacket. White, longtime political reporter, presents his third masterful analysis of an American presidential election, this one marked by month after month of campaign surprises against a background of continued American setbacks and frustrations in the Vietnam War. Chapter titles, in chronological order: Tet -- the shadow on the walls; The Republicans -- return from exile; The Democrats -- the struggle for the inheritance; Lyndon Johnson -- the renunciation; the inevitability of Richard M. Nixon; Robert F. Kennedy, requiescat in pacem; Appetite for apocalypse -- the issue of law-and-order; Mirage at Miami -- Rockefeller versus Nixon; the Chicago convention --furies in the street; September -- new shape in the darkness; October -- all passion spent; the Election -- passage in the night; and Season of Survival -- the America of Richard M. Nixon. As the chapters suggest, the 2016 campaign is haunted by more than a few ghosts of 1968. Size: 8vo -- 8.25 in.