Report Of The County Chairman

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 dayùnotably KennedyÆs Catholicismùbrought cultural divides to the forefront. First published shortly after the 1960 election, Report of the County Chairman remains an intimate, gripping account of the power of grassroots political involvement. Praise for Report of the County Chairman ôA candid account of the Kennedy/Nixon campaign.öùThe Philadelphia Inquirer ôFascinating . . . The personalities are vividly and vigorously sketchedùthe workers, the volunteers, the hatchet men, the pros and . . . key figures on the barnstorming tour.öùKirkus Reviews ôInstructive . . . 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.öùThe Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania)

• | Author: James A. Michener
• | Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
• | Publication Date: Apr 12, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0812986830
• | ISBN-13: 9780812986839