03972cam a2200481 i 450000100070000000500170000700800410002403500130006501000170007802000290009502000360012402000260016004000280018604200080021404300120022205000270023408200150026108400450027610000310032124500970035225000460044926400630049530000560055833600260061433700280064033800270066850000720069552018190076750400670258665000470265360000530270065000550275365000630280865000600287165000640293165100550299565100540305065000530310465000640315765000620322170000320328377601750331512745420230404125819.0161223s2017    nyuf     b    001 0deng    a19417034  a  2016050682  a9781501105562 (hardback)  a9781501105579 (trade paperback)  z9781501105586 (ebook)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  apcc  an-us---14a002 E 837.7bK35O 201700a973.922092  aHIS036060aPOL008000aPOL0160002bisacsh1 aOliphant, Thomas,eauthor.14aThe road to Camelot :binside JFK's five-year campaign /cThomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie.  aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 1aNew York ;aLondon ;aToronto :bSimon & Schuster,c[2017]  ax, 433 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover"--Title page verso.2 a"A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election and plotted a successful course to that constituency. They hired Louis Harris--a polling entrepreneur--to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms and they charmed. They lined up party bosses, young enthusiasts, and fellow Catholics and turned the traditional party inside out. The last-minute invitation to Lyndon B. Johnson for vice president in 1956 surprised them only because they had failed to notice that he wanted it. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates. Now acclaimed, award-winning journalists Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie provide the most comprehensive account, based on a depth of personal reporting, interviews, and archives. The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they've interviewed surviving sources, including JFK's sister Jean Smith, and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.  From the start of the campaign in 1955 when his father tried to persuade President Johnson to run with JFK as his running mate, The Road to Camelot reveals him as a tough, shrewd political strategist who kept his eye on the prize. This is one of the great campaign stories of all time, appropriate for today's political climate"--cProvided by publisher.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 371-373) and index. 0aPresidentszUnited StatesxElectiony1960.10aKennedy, John F.q(John Fitzgerald),d1917-1963. 0aPresidential candidateszUnited StatesvBiography. 0aPolitical campaignszUnited StatesxHistoryy20th century. 4aCandidatos presidencialeszEstados UnidosvBiografía. 4aCampañas políticaszEstados UnidosxHistoriaySiglo XX. 0aUnited StatesxPolitics and governmenty1953-1961. 4aEstados UnidosxPolítica y gobiernoy1953-1961. 7aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.2bisacsh 7aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections.2bisacsh 7aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General.2bisacsh1 aWilkie, Curtis,eco-author.08iOnline version:aOliphant, Thomas, author.tRoad to CamelotbFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.dNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2017z9781501105586w(DLC) 2017000324