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Simon & Schuster, 2016 THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES..... The Road to Camelot tells the story of a young and undistinguished junior senator who plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate and elect presidents.
Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over the accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election and plotted a successful course to that constituency. They hired Louis Harris to become the first presidential campaign pollster. They twisted arms. They charmed. They lined up party bosses, young enthusiasts and fellow Catholics and turned the traditional party inside out. The last-minute invitation to Lyndon B. Johnson for vice-president in 1960 surprised them only because they had failed to notice that he wanted it. They also invented a missile gap in the cold War and outshone Richard Nixon in the TV debates.
Acclaimed, award-winning journalists Tom Oliphant…
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