The Making of the President 1972

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Theodore H. White's classic The Making of the President series revolutionized the way modern presidential campaigns are reported. The Making of a President: 1972 the fourth of White's narrative histories of American politics in action, is a compelling account of the election and the precedent-shattering victory of Richard Nixon over George McGovern.

White examines the strategies and miscalculations that brought about the greatest landslide in American history, and provides detailed portraits of the participants: Nixon and McGovern, Humphrey and Wallace, Lindsay and Muskie. With a forward by Cokie Roberts, The Making of a President: 1972 deftly shows how the election was not just a passage in political memory, but a sign of the end of an era.

Theodore H. White (1915 - 1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for The Making of the President series -- his accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections. White won a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for The Making of the President: 1960, and is the author of the critically acclaimed America in Search of Itself.

"[White] revolutionized the art of political reporting." -- William F. Buckley