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(4) | Keine | "A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election and plotted a successful course to that constituency. They hired Louis Harris--a polling entrepreneur--to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms and 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 1956 surprised them only because they had failed to notice that he wanted it. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates. Now acclaimed, award-winning journalists Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie provide the most comprehensive account, based on a depth of personal reporting, interviews, and archives. The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they've interviewed surviving sources, including JFK's sister Jean Smith, and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. From the start of the campaign in 1955 when his father tried to persuade President Johnson to run with JFK as his running mate, The Road to Camelot reveals him as a tough, shrewd political strategist who kept his eye on the prize. This is one of the great campaign stories of all time, appropriate for today's political climate"--… (mehr) |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen "A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election and plotted a successful course to that constituency. They hired Louis Harris--a polling entrepreneur--to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms and 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 1956 surprised them only because they had failed to notice that he wanted it. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates. Now acclaimed, award-winning journalists Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie provide the most comprehensive account, based on a depth of personal reporting, interviews, and archives. The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they've interviewed surviving sources, including JFK's sister Jean Smith, and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. From the start of the campaign in 1955 when his father tried to persuade President Johnson to run with JFK as his running mate, The Road to Camelot reveals him as a tough, shrewd political strategist who kept his eye on the prize. This is one of the great campaign stories of all time, appropriate for today's political climate"-- ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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We learn in "The Road to Camelot" that John F. Kennedy insisted on running his own campaign, not the campaign his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, family patriarch, wanted him to run. Of course, the plan had been for the eldest son, Joe Kennedy Jr., to be the one who sought higher office, but that dream died with him in the Second World War. Instead, the frail and sickly second son, who nonetheless became a war hero and presented an handsome and charming face to the world, became the vessel of the family's political ambition. But from the first, John Kennedy as he won his first term as a freshman Congressman in the Election of 1946, disregarded his father's advice to apprentice himself to the political bosses who ran the Democratic machine in Boston. He early on demonstrated an independent streak that defied conventional political wisdom. He was still happy to accept his father's financial support and Joe Sr. tolerated his son's independent spirit, because he kept winning.
In 1952, JFK defeated Henry Cabot Lodge to become the junior senator from Massachusetts. Three years later, he decided to make a bid for the Presidency. He was 38 years old. At the Democratic national convention in Chicago in the summer of 1956, Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois was nominated for a second time (he lost against Eisenhower in 1952) as the party's candidate for President. He left it up to the convention to choose his running mate, and the Kennedy people made a serious effort to get the Vice Presidential nomination. Fortunately, they lost and Kennedy was not tied to Stevenson as he was again defeated by Ike.
As Oliphant and Wilkie argue, Kennedy was a pioneer in modern campaigning. He and his crack team of advisors, many drawn from the academic world, others from journalism, invented the long-term scientific campaign. He hired the young Lou Harris as his professional pollster. And he decided to enter as many of the primaries as possible in 1960 to demonstrate his strength with voters and to win most of the delegates he would need going in to the convention in Los Angeles. This was an age when the party establishment still thought they could choose the candidate in the proverbial "smoke filled room" at the convention. JFK won all the crucial primaries and overcame the widespread bigotry against the idea of a Catholic President. With LBJ as his running mate, Kennedy won a razor thin victory over Nixon in November. His call to Coretta Scott King was possibly the act of moral courage that provided the margin of his election. ( )