A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy. With this narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore White revolutionized the way presidential campaigns are reported. Now back in print, freshly repackaged, and with a new foreword written by Robert Dallek, The Making...

Describes how the United States Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and chose those few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs of World War II. Among them was future Sen. George McGovern, who flew thirty-five combat missions and won the Distinguished Flying Cross.

McGovern describes a complex yet simple man in this biography of Abrahan Lincoln.