Several weeks ago, I finished reading Lawrence O'Donnell's Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Penguin, 2017), a tendentious, seriously flawed and sloppily researched view of the 1968 election from the left.
Just a few days ago, I finished the audiobook version of Mark Kurlansky's 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (New York: Random House, 2003), which takes a global perspective of 1968 and is better-researched but is still biased to the left.
Another book that I recently read is The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority (New York: Crown, 2014) in which Patrick J. Buchanan, a prominent conservative in Richard Nixon's inner circle (and who gets a lot of attention here on FR), takes the reader into the inner workings of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. Next week, I will be leading a book club discussion of this volume.
Currently, I am reading Jeffrey St. John's Countdown to Chaos: Chicago, August 1968: Turning Point in American Politics(Los Angeles: Nash, 1969), a look at the Democratic National Convention from the point of view of a conservative radio commentator. Other books on this subject that I intend to read in the near future are Winning's a Lot More Fun by Stephen C. Shadegg (New York: Macmillan, 1969), an early look at Nixon's quest for the presidency, and The News Twisters by Edith Ephron (sine loco: Manor, 1971), a rigorous analysis of news media bias during the 1968 presidential campaign.
“Valley of the Dolls”——Jacqueline Susann. :-)
(I HAD to lighten up this reading list a bit.)
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