MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 04419cam a22004214a 4500
001 7094473
005 20221130205818.0
008 081022t20092009ksua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2008044566
020 $a9780700616398 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a070061639X (cloth : alk. paper)
024 $a40016486668
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn263605338
035 $a(OCoLC)263605338
035 $a(NNC)7094473
035 $a7094473
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDXCP$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE837.7$b.R67 2009
082 00 $a324.973/0921$222
100 1 $aRorabaugh, W. J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004577
245 14 $aThe real making of the president :$bKennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 election /$cW.J. Rorabaugh.
260 $aLawrence :$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $ax, 250 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAmerican presidential elections
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-236) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tEisenhower's America -- $g2.$tThe Democratic Primaries -- $g3.$tThe Democratic Convention -- $g4.$tThe Republicans -- $g5.$tThe South -- $g6.$tThe Fall Campaign -- $g7.$tKennedy's Victory -- $gAppendix A.$t1960 Democratic Presidential Primaries -- $gAppendix B.$t1960 Republican Presidential Primaries -- $gAppendix C.$t1960 Democratic National Convention Vote -- $gAppendix D.$t1960 Presidential Election Returns -- $gAppendix E.$tJohn F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.
520 1 $a"W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of the famous 1960 presidential election to explain the nuts-and-bolts operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, The Making of the President." "Despite a less than liberal record, JFK assumed the image of liberal hero - thanks to White and other journalists who were shamelessly manipulated by the Kennedy campaign. Rorabaugh instead paints JFK as the ideological twin of Nixon and his equal as a bare-knuckled politician, showing that Kennedy's hard-won, razor-thin victory was attributable less to his legendary charisma than to an enormous amount of money, an effective campaign organization, and television image-making." "The 1960 election, Rorabaugh argues, reflects the transition from the dominance of old-style boss and convention politics to the growing significance of primaries, race, and especially TV - without which Kennedy would have been neither nominated nor elected. He recounts how JFK cultivated delegates to the 1960 Democratic convention; quietly wooed the still-important party bosses; and used a large personal organization, polls, and TV advertising to win primaries. JFK's master stroke, however, was choosing as a running mate Lyndon Johnson, whose campaigning in the South carried enough southern states to win the election." "On the other side, Rorabaugh draws on Nixon's often-ignored files to take a close look at his dysfunctional campaign, which reflected the oddities of a dark and brooding candidate trapped into defending the Eisenhower administration. Yet the widely detested Nixon won almost as many votes as the charismatic Kennedy. This leads Rorabaugh to reexamine the darker side of the election: the Republicans' charges of vote fraud in Illinois and Texas, the use of money to prod or intimidate, manipulation of the media, and the bulldozing of opponents." "The Real Making of the President gives us a sobering look at all of this, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of one of the nation's most memorable elections."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xElection$y1960.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106961
650 0 $aPolitical campaigns$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106958
600 10 $aKennedy, John F.$q(John Fitzgerald),$d1917-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055297
600 10 $aNixon, Richard M.$q(Richard Milhous),$d1913-1994.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018757
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1953-1961.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140468
830 0 $aAmerican presidential elections.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005053128
852 00 $bglx$hE837.7$i.R67 2009
852 00 $bbar$hE837.7$i.R67 2009