The Road To Camelot Inside JFK's Five-year Campaign ISBN 978501105579 New Book
Product details
- Publisher
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Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (May 9, 2017)
- Language
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English
- Hardcover
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448 pages
- ISBN-10
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1501105566
- ISBN-13
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978-1501105562
- Item Weight
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1.5 pounds
- Dimensions
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8.66 x 5.91 x 0.98 inches (23.5cmx16cmx3cm)
READY STOCK, Issued price was USD28
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Two
of our most gifted reporters have found the perfect subject to match
their love of politics, their interviewing skills, and their literary
talents. The result is a freshly told, endlessly riveting story that
captures the reader every step along the way.” -- Doris Kearns Goodwin,
author of The Bully Pulpit and Team of Rivals
“Oliphant and
Wilkie’s evocative, behind-the-scenes account goes beyond what we knew
from Teddy White and others about how a youthful senator beat the
political establishment and won the presidency. Their portrait of
Kennedy shows him to be “part gambler but also part cold realist” whose
political instincts served him well and broke new ground in presidential
campaigns that his successors have followed.” -- Susan Page, Washington
Bureau chief, USA TODAY
“The Road to Camelot grabs
you on the first page and never lets go. Two of our country’s
finest journalists, take us deep inside John F. Kennedy’s at once
old-fashioned and brilliantly innovative political operation and show
how it made him president. Along the way, they teach us a lot about our
country. This book is a gift to history, to all who love politics, and
to anyone who likes a good story, brilliantly told.” -- E. J. Dionne
Jr., author of the New York Times Bestseller Why The Right Went Wrong
“A
spellbinding story of the brash young scion of a wealthy Catholic
family plotting his way to the presidency. Kennedy created the modern
campaign while cajoling the canny and still-controlling party bosses.
Though we know the ending, it’s a nail-biting and well-told tale.” --
Cokie Roberts, author and political commentator for ABC News and NPR
“Two
of the best political reporters around tell the story of an ambitious
young senator who would not wait his turn and changed all the old rules
to become our 35th president. The Road to Camelot
is a wonderful narrative of the self-driven campaign of the man who
became President Kennedy. An exciting time. A great read.” -- Richard
Reeves, author of President Kennedy: Profile of Power and President
Reagan: The Triump of Imagination
“An excellent chronicle of JFK's innovations, his true personality, and how close he came to losing.” ― Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“The
exciting and illuminating tale of John F. Kennedy’s calculated run for
the presidency . . . a very compelling account of a landmark election.”
― Booklist, starred review
“An
in-depth narrative based on oral histories, personal interviews, and
secondary sources. . . . The authors add a new perspective to literature
on Kennedy by focusing on his electioneering efforts rather than his
persona and policy outcomes. This book will interest everyone from
history buffs to those nostalgic for the days of favorite-son candidates
to readers interested in contested conventions.” ― Library Journal
“The Road to Camelot
brings much new insight to an important playbook that has echoed
through the campaigns of other presidential aspirants as disparate as
Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The authors take us step by step on the
road to the Kennedy victory, leaving us with an appreciation for the
maniacal attention to detail of both the candidate and his brother
Robert, the best campaign manager in American political history." ― The Washington Post
"Oliphant
and Wilkie excel here in taking the accepted knowledge of Kennedy's
rise, debunking some of the conventional wisdom (such as Joe Kennedy's
role as his son's Svengali) and adding new details that provide a richer
history of our 35th president....The authors' knowledge of politics,
campaigns and the presidency crackles off each page. They touch all the
Kennedy bases here....a must-read for fans of presidential history." ― USA Today
“A
conscientiously-researched and terrific new book . . . a tougher and
more balanced account of the long campaign than anybody's written yet. .
. . The book's account of the actual 1960 presidential campaign is as
gripping and dramatic as anything Sorensen himself might have written in
its interplay of political insight and personal interplay. . . . "The
Road to Camelot" is in essence a reminder and perhaps a bit of a
surprise: This is the story of John Kennedy making all the decisions and
calling all the shots, a man in complete control of his message and his
campaign – the chief architect of his own victory.” ― The Christian Science Monitor
“Splendid . . . a gripping, authoritative campaign history, every bit the successor to Theodore White’s classic work, The Making of the President 1960.” ― The Boston Globe
"[A] provocative reconstruction of his 'five-year campaign' for the White House." ― The New Yorker
“The
book is most impressive for its meticulously detailed approach to the
fierce Kennedy drive toward the ultimate goal of the presidency.” ― The Washington Times
"Excellent" ― The Dallas Morning News
“The two former Boston Globe reporters argue that JFK's campaign was much more than the year-long affair depicted in Teddy White's The Making of the President 1960,
a classic of political journalism that won the Pulitzer Prize. . . .
The book offers new detail on how Johnson ended up as vice president
after Kennedy clinched the nomination.” ― CNN
“Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie — two veterans of The Boston Globe — supply a fresh and fascinating account in The Road to Camelot. . . . a detailed account that balances admiration with criticism.” ― Richmond Times-Dispatch
“The most compelling book on JFK in the year of his centennial.” ― The Daily Beast
“Thomas
Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie, both veteran political journalists, retell
the story of this momentous campaign, reminding us of now forgotten
details of Kennedy’s path to the White House.” ― The Wall Street Journal
“This is an important work for any JFK student or fan....Put this one on your book shelf–you'll want to return to it often." ― Buffalo News
About the Author
Thomas Oliphant is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Washington columnist for The Boston Globe. A regular commentator on PBS NewsHour, he is the author of four books, including The Road to Camelot.
Al Franken says “Oliphant brings more to the table than anyone I know.”
Madeline Albright called him “the Will Rogers of our times.” Doris
Kearns Goodwin wrote that his book Praying for Gil Hodges was a “small masterpiece.”
Curtis Wilkie was a national reporter and correspondent for The Boston Globe. He teaches journalism at University of Mississippi. He is the author of The Fall of the House of Zeus, which The Wall Street Journal wrote “reads like a John Grisham novel.” Tom Brokaw described Wilkie as “one of the best journalists of our generation.”
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