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By Gary A. Donaldson

The presidential crusade that pitted Richard M. Nixon opposed to John F. Kennedy used to be the main major political crusade seeing that global battle II. With Eisenhower's tenure at an finish, American society broke with the tradition of the struggle years. This social shift used to be mirrored in and provoked by way of new tendencies in American political lifestyles and political campaigning, all of which made 1960 a landmark yr in American politics.

In this attractive publication, Gary A. Donaldson tells the tale of Kennedy as opposed to Nixon with a pointy eye for the salient political advancements and a willing experience of the drama of an election that used to be not like the other the kingdom had skilled. The election of 1960 was once additionally an orchestrated political drama, equipped as a sweeping crusade from coast to coast and staged for a countrywide tv viewers. This made it the 1st sleek crusade within which the tv media replaced the dynamics of presidential politics and within which photos, air of mystery, and direct appeals to citizens counted as they'd by no means performed earlier than. It used to be additionally an election of extreme own competition made the entire extra lively by means of the bias opposed to Kennedy's Catholicism and his purpose to widen the yank political arena.

Ideological shifts in the events as they mixed with ideas in campaigning may mark a transparent divide in politics because it used to be practiced and politics because it must be practiced sooner or later. but now not due to the fact Theodore White's journalistic account, The Making of the President, has awareness been paid to the entire 1960 crusade because it performed out within the early primaries after which culminated within the November election. Donaldson exhibits why the entire political season is important to figuring out American politics today.

The First sleek Campaign is key and interesting interpreting for an individual attracted to modern politics within the United States.

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