The Making of the Presidency 1960: With an Introduction By James Reston Illustrations for This Edition Selected By Joan Paterson Kerr

New York: Book of the Month Club, 1988. One tiny tear in the middle of the dj. Almost new and unread condition, very crisp and clean! Gift Quality! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! Nicely encased in a near-fine clothbound slipcase! Black and white pictorial endpapers! 400 like new and unread historical pages of text and 30 wonderful pages of black and white photographs! "On Tuesday November 8, 1960, 68,832,818 Americans voted. Of these sixty-eight million, between 3,500,000 and 4,000,000 actively participated in the campaign, contributing money, licking envelopes, ringing doorbells, pasting stamps, organizing rallies, exciting their neighbors. Yet of all these active citizens, fewer perhaps than a thousand had been aware a year earlier that the germinal decisions that would govern their actions were then being taken or had already been taken. And of this thousand alert and sensitive enough to know what was happening, fewer than fifty were present at those initial meetings of three or five or twelve, far below the level of press notice and public attention, when the seven principal candidates of 1960 coldly surveyed the awesome problem of acquisition of power in America.". Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Blue Cloth. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.