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An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968 Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 1969

by Lewis Chester (Author), Godfrey Hodgson (Author), Bruce Page (Author)
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A true original collectors item with a rare white background on cover and very minimal wear. This is a great book that's being sold at much higher prices but we are pricing ours to sell quickly.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000NPZ5SE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dell Book (September 1, 1969)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 908 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.3 ounces
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    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

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    Lewis Chester was born in London's East End. After national service - as an army PT instructor he read history at Oxford. He was an award-winning journalist at the Sunday Times where he headed the Insight investigation team. He has written twenty non-fiction books, most of them biographies. His biographical subjects have included Lew Grade, Martin Luther King Jnr, Lord Beaverbrook, Aristotle Onassis and Howard Hughes, along with the anti-apartheid campaigner, the Rev. Michael Scott and three of his own contemporaries on the Sunday Times: the illustrator Roger Law who created the Spitting Image satire show; Murray Sayle the paper's legendary foreign correspondent, and Don McCullin, the war photographer.

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Robert
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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018
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In-depth and balanced coverage of a crazy campaign.
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samantha
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Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2017
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Great book
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Burgain Hayes
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EtaoinShrdlu
5.0 out of 5 stars tells the '68 election "like it was"
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2015
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The standard text
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Peter Jakobsen
4.0 out of 5 stars Avoids Faux Pomp.
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2014
Definitive account of the 1968 Presidential campaign, written by three accomplished British journalists, manages to avoid the faux pomp of much American political writing; brilliantly covers the most critical election since 1932 with telling vignettes of key players, Democratic, Republican and independent. Pithy chapters on RFK's death in Los Angeles and Nixon working southern delegates at the Miami Hilton are classic.
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Randy Keehn
5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Account of the 1968 Election
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2004
Most US elections are at least moderately interesting. The current one certainly has a number of twists that will intrigue the more than casual observer. On some elections, the course of history is crucially determined. Probably the last one of those was 1932 but you could make the case for several since then. I'm not sure that 1968 qualifies as such an election. After all, it seemed like we redid it in 1972. However, it was probably the most passionate election and the most tragic election year in many decades. I have read quite a number of accounts of the election of 1968 and most of them are long forgotten. However, the one that stands out above all the rest for me is clearly "An American Melodrama". Perhaps it is because so many of the books I read were by those in or close to the action as well as affiliated with one side or the other (or the still other). "An American Melodrama" was written by a trio of British journalists who seemed better able to step back a from the emotional involvement for a better overall perspective of what happened. Their sober, insightful look at the whole process is the version that should be the textbook for future researchers into the subject. You don't have to be a researcher, however, to be able to enjoy this book. If you actively lived through those years or if you just happened to have heard of a few of the main events, the retelling of this emotional time in US history is fascinating.
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Alexandre Burmester
5.0 out of 5 stars and finally the year of "the greatest comeback", with the election of Richard Nixon
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2016
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The 1968 US presidential campaign, along with that whole year, was perhaps one of the most tragic, dramatic and fascinating of them all, since WWII. This was the year of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the year in which the incumbent quit the race for the White House in March, the year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King abd Robret Kennedy, the year of "the Siege of Chicago", and finally the year of "the greatest comeback", with the election of Richard Nixon. The authors give a forceful and seamless account of all the drama,
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