The Making of the President, 1960

The Making of the President, 1960, written by Theodore White and published by Atheneum Publishers in 1961, analyzes the 1960 election in which John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. The book won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and was the first in a series of books analyzing American Presidential elections. (The others are The Making of the President, 1964 (1965), The Making of the President, 1968 (1969), and ... More

The Making of the President, 1960, written by Theodore White and published by Atheneum Publishers in 1961, analyzes the 1960 election in which John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. The book won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and was the first in a series of books analyzing American Presidential elections. (The others are The Making of the President, 1964 (1965), The Making of the President, 1968 (1969), and The Making of the President, 1972 (1973).) The Making of the President, 1960, was a huge success when the book came out in 1961. It stayed on the best-seller list for more than forty weeks. The book, written in a novelistic style, traces the 1960 campaign from the primaries (in which John F. Kennedy faced Hubert Humphrey and Senator Stuart Symington) to the conclusion of the general election contest against Richard Nixon. The book had quite an impact on politics and its image. Critics and journalists who had read it were subjected to a shift...

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