Summary of Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1960

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 On election day, America is Republican until five or six in the evening. It is in the last few hours of the day that working people and their families vote, on their way home from work or after supper.

#2 When he arrived at Hyannisport, he was the next President, close to no one. Or else he would be an also-ran, a footnote in the history books. Now there was nothing to do but wait.

#3 Hyannisport, the town where the Kennedy family lived, was a small, quiet town that was invaded by reporters and sight-seers when the candidate was nominated. The local community was not happy about the Kennedys, and many were upset when Jack ordered the construction of a wooden palisade to separate his house from the public.

#4 The candidate was restless. He breakfasted at his father’s house, where nine of the Kennedy clan had already gathered at the board. His father and mother, brother Robert and sister-in-law Ethel, brother Edward and sister-in-law Joan, and brother-in-law Peter Lawford, were all there.