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The Making of a Catholic President - Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (Hardcover, New)
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The Making of a Catholic President - Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (Hardcover, New)
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The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy,
was one of the closest and most contentious in American history.
The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the
last time a Catholic had been nominated--New York Governor Al Smith
in 1928--he was routed in the general election. From the outset,
Kennedy saw the religion issue as the single most important
obstacle on his road to the White House. He was acutely aware of,
and deeply frustrated by, the possibility that his personal
religious beliefs could keep him out of the White House.
In The Making of a Catholic President, Shaun Casey tells the
fascinating story of how the Kennedy campaign transformed the
"religion question" from a liability into an asset, making him the
first (and still only) Catholic president. Drawing on extensive
archival research, including many never-before-seen documents,
Casey takes us inside the campaign to show Kennedy's chief
advisors--Ted Sorensen, John Kenneth Galbraith, Archibald
Cox--grappling with the staunch opposition to the candidate's
Catholicism. Casey also reveals, for the first time, many of the
Nixon campaign's efforts to tap in to anti-Catholic sentiment, with
the aid of Billy Graham and the National Association of
Evangelicals, among others. The alliance between conservative
Protestants and the Nixon campaign, he shows, laid the groundwork
for the rise of the Religious Right. This book will shed light on
one of the most talked-about elections in American history, as well
as on the vexed relationship between religion and politics more
generally.
With clear relevance to our own political situation--where
politicians' religious beliefs seem more important and more
volatile than ever--The Making of a Catholic President offers rare
insights into one of the most extraordinary presidential campaigns
in American history.
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