As the United States marks its first presidential election of a new century, Witcover shows us how professional mercenaries -- with little party loyalty and diminished political principles, driven by an insatiable need for money -- are poisoning public life. At the same time, politicians themselves have condoned and even encouraged these developments, responding to the demands of a media-driven age in which the press corps pursues its own quest for celebrity and financial reward. Sharp, revealing, and rich with anecdotes, No Way to Pick aPresident offers a wealth of...
As the United States marks its first presidential election of a new century, Witcover shows us how professional mercenaries -- with little party loyal...
Month by month, Witcover re-creates 1968 as he travels with, and reports on, the political fortunes of Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, George Romney, and Hubert Humphrey. He conveys the actual words of national figures and commentary by rock artists, media people, economists, Vietnam veterans, and Haight-Ashbury hippies. That year Witcover crossed the country from New Hampshire to California; he was standing on the rioting streets of Washington with Robert Kennedy after King was shot; he was in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel the night Kennedy was gunned...
Month by month, Witcover re-creates 1968 as he travels with, and reports on, the political fortunes of Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Nixon,...
A prominent journalist looks at the most pivotal year in modern American history -- and its irrevocable consequences for today's society. The tumultuous events of 1968 burden America to this day. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, campus riots, and the election of Richard Nixon led to disappointment, division, and self-doubt that bred distrust of the nation's leaders and institutions. For millions of Americans, the dream that we would at last face up with compassion to our most basic problems at home and abroad was shattered in...
A prominent journalist looks at the most pivotal year in modern American history -- and its irrevocable consequences for today's society. The tumu...
The definitive account (Washington Post) of Robert F. Kennedy s seminal presidential campaign.
85 Days is veteran Washington journalist Jules Witcover s masterpiece of political reportage. It brilliantly captures a lost moment in time when the politics of conviction seemed to converge with America s youth movement in opposition to the Vietnam War. At its center was the charismatic Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the slain President John F. Kennedy. Robert Kennedy s impassioned opposition to the Vietnam War, and his vision for a more egalitarian United States, launched him on one of the...
The definitive account (Washington Post) of Robert F. Kennedy s seminal presidential campaign.
85 Days is veteran Washington journalist Jules Wit...
