For those who can bear to face it again, here is a report on the '68 Presidential campaign by three British journalists who covered it for the London Times. Beginning with the foreboding events of 3/31-4/6, they plunge onward thru the primaries to the conventions, paying rather less attention to the anti-climactic Nixon-Humphrey bout which followed. Using the mass-psychoanalytic approach developed by the better journalism since '63, the authors probe the styles & personalities of the major figures, & interpret phenomena such as Daley, Abby Hoffman & the Kennedy intellectuals. They comment on American violence, on the role of the media & on the conflict between rhetoric & reality in American life. Their insights will not startle readers of liberal-left periodicals, but they write with wit & concision, & have some sharp moments, as in their dissection of Johnson's Vietnam advisers, or in their remarks on Mayor Daley's Newspeak version of the Chicago police frolic. Their acquaintance with American history & idiom is impressive. Some an attempt to say too much & a paucity of straight political analysis (votegetting strategies etc.) which renders the book less valuable as campaign history than the White studies on '60 & '64. Still, until the mists clear further, this will serve to keep alive the drama of a fantastic & frightening election year.--Kirkus

An American melodrama: The Presidential campaign of 1968

Chester, Lewis

Deutsch

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Fraser, Nicholas

Ottaway, Mark

Jacobson, Philip

J.B. Lippincott Company

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SHAWCROSS, WILLIAM

Aris, Stephen

McCrystal, Cal

True Crime

Ballantine Books

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American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968

HODGSON, Godfrey

Page, Bruce

Viking Adult

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Fay, Stephen

Linklater, Magnus

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Business & Money

PHELAN, JAMES

Economics

Orion Business Books

It's often said that the qualities required for success in journalism are: "rat-like cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability." Even so, Murray Sayle, the man who originally coined this dictum, had rather more to offer, as this collection of his best pieces amply demonstrates.   To the above mentioned qualities, Murray added extraordinary bravery and a combative individual style that often made waves in his relations with his editors, and sometimes his readers. When not deployed in war zones, he tended to seek relief in hazardous leisure occupations like sailing the Atlantic single-handed or climbing Everest.   Part of the Australian diaspora that brought the likes of Clive James, Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries to Britain's shores, Murray went on to become the top writing journalist on the Sunday Times, reporting almost exclusively from the world's most dangerous places. Lewis Chester, the compiler of this anthology – part biography, part selected journalism – was a close observer of his rise at that time.   A wordsmith all his long life, Murray had no interest in climbing the executive ladder, aside from his editorship of Sydney University's newspaper ("Honi Soit") at the age of seventeen. He always thought that the highest ambition of a journalist should be the writing of a good piece. His own achievements in this regard makes this book a must for any student of journalism and a rich entertainment for all other readers.

Making Waves

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Essays & Correspondence

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Fiercely driven, passionately idealistic & secretly tormented, the British priest Michael Scott was a key figure in the struggles against apartheid, colonialism and nuclear weapons. This biography brings to life a man who helped bring liberation to millions, but was himself held captive by fear and doubt.

Troublemaker

Yates, Anne

Aurum Press Ltd

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EVANS, ALEX

Law, Roger

Booth, Clibborn Edward

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