1960 aims to take us deeper into the campaign than Theodore White's famous The Making of the President, 1960 .
And it does.
-- Chicago Sun-Times Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's hard-edged account of the 1960 Presidential Campaign--the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button issues of race, religion, and foreign policy.
And, at the center of it all, three.