Report of the County Chairman
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2016
Summary
James A. Michener, the acclaimed author of sweeping historical blockbusters, chronicles his personal involvement in one of the most dramatic elections of the twentieth century: the presidential race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
A relative newcomer to politics, Michener served as the Democratic chairman in his native Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in a rural battleground precinct where the major controversies of the day—notably Kennedy’s Catholicism—brought cultural divides …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812986839 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812986830 |
| Author: | James A. Michener, Steve Berry |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Dial Press Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 140mm x 211mm |
Critics Review
“A candid account of the Kennedy/Nixon campaign.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A candid account of the Kennedy/Nixon campaign.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Fascinating … The personalities are vividly and vigorously sketched—the workers, the volunteers, the hatchet men, the pros and … key figures on the barnstorming tour.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Instructive … Anti-Catholicism was not just a Southern problem. In Pennsylvania, accounts of increasing anti-Catholicism were widespread. No one documented this sentiment more clearly than famed Pennsylvania novelist James Michener.”—The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
James A. Michener
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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