Report of the County Chairman
Author: Michener, James A.
ISBN: 9780812986839
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Apr 2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Classic Michener nonfiction, in trade paperback for the first time, featuring a new introduction by Steve Berry.
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 to the forefront. First published shortly after the1960election, Report of the County Chairman remains an intimate, gripping account of the power of grassroots political involvement.
Praise for Report of the County Chairman
"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)
ISBN: 9780812986839
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Apr 2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Classic Michener nonfiction, in trade paperback for the first time, featuring a new introduction by Steve Berry.
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 to the forefront. First published shortly after the1960election, Report of the County Chairman remains an intimate, gripping account of the power of grassroots political involvement.
Praise for Report of the County Chairman
"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)
