The time: 1960.
Longtime journalist Theodore H. White releases his ground breaking book The Making of the President 1960.
The Pulitzer Prize winning book, the first of its kind, follows the behind-the- scenes doings of Democrats and Republicans as they maneuver to nominate their 1960 presidential nominees. The tale, White reports, “begins long before” the fall election. He notes of the election that finally narrowed down to Republican Vice President Richard Nixon and the Democrat, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy:
It is an adventure for which men have planned, plotted and calculated years before the country wakes to their ambitions.
A decided part of White’s tale is his behind the scenes reporting on the media of the day. Or as called in the day, the press. In this case that would mean the political reporters from the various newspaper,…
