![]() ![]() Jack Germond and Jules Witcover wrote a few. Teddy White stopped his series after the 1972 race, but others picked up the slack. And when I started including references to Bill Scranton, Gene McCarthy and Nelson Rockefeller in my everyday conversations, it wasn't just the librarian giving me funny looks anymore. It was all brand new to me and I absorbed every last bit of it. ![]() I learned the contours of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 elections-names, events, issues, cultural references. So I headed to the library and stumbled on some dusty old copies of Teddy White's "Making of the President" series. When it was over, I was left hungry to experience and understand other campaigns the same way. This was because of my fascination with presidential campaign politics, which was born during the 1992 Bush-Clinton-Perot race. ![]() Sometimes because my fly was open, but mostly because I liked to pick out books that hadn't been checked out in years. My middle school librarian used to give me funny looks. ![]()
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