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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. B/W Illus; Maps By Ava Morgan Ilustrador. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; maps on end papers; 362 pages/index.

Cloth/Boards. Condición: G/G. Maps Ilustrador. First Printing. New York, NY: Macmillan Company. G/G. (c1964). First Printing. Cloth/Boards. 8vo., 271 pp., Dj rubbed, edges frayed, yellowing, owner's name on htitle page, page edges yellowed .

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Ava Morgan (Endpaper Maps) Ilustrador. Book Club Edition. xxii, [4], 419, [3] pages. Endpaper maps. Footnotes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Ding to bottom edge of front board. Explores the complex interaction of men and events that shaped the 1972 Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns. Theodore Harold White (May 6, 1915 - May 15, 1986) was an American political journalist and historian, known for his reporting from China during World War II and the Making of the President series. White started his career reporting for Time magazine from wartime China in the 1940s. He was the first foreigner to report on the Chinese famine of 1942-43 and helped to draw international attention to the shortcomings of the Nationalist government. After leaving Time, he reported on post-war Europe for popular magazines in the early 1950s, but lost these assignments because of his association with the "Loss of China". He regained national recognition with The Making of the President 1960, whose combination of interviews, on the ground reporting, and vivid writing were developed in best-selling accounts of the 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1980 presidential elections, and became a model for later journalists. With experience in analyzing foreign cultures from his time abroad, White took up the challenge of analyzing American culture with the books The Making of the President 1960, The Making of the President 1964, The Making of the President 1968, and The Making of the President 1972, all analyzing United States presidential elections. The first of these was both a bestseller and a critical success, winning the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. A riveting account of the 1972 presidential campaign and Richard M. Nixon's precedent-shattering landslide victory. From Wikipedia: The 1972 United States presidential election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican president Richard Nixon defeated Democratic U.S. senator George McGovern in a historic-level landslide. Nixon swept aside challenges from two Republican representatives in the Republican primaries to win renomination. McGovern, who had played a significant role in changing the Democratic nomination system after the 1968 presidential election, mobilized the anti-Vietnam War movement and other liberal supporters to win his party's nomination. Among the candidates he defeated were early front-runner Edmund Muskie, 1968 nominee Hubert Humphrey, governor George Wallace, and representative Shirley Chisholm. Nixon emphasized the strong economy and his success in foreign affairs, while McGovern ran on a platform calling for an immediate end to the Vietnam War and the institution of a guaranteed minimum income. Nixon maintained a large lead in polling. Separately, Nixon's reelection committee broke into the Watergate complex to wiretap the Democratic National Committee's headquarters as part of the Watergate scandal. McGovern's general election campaign was damaged early on by revelations from his running mate Thomas Eagleton, as well as the perception that McGovern's platform was radical. Eagleton had undergone electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment for depression, and he was replaced by Sargent Shriver after only nineteen days on the ticket. Nixon won the election in a landslide victory, taking 60.7% of the popular vote and carrying 49 states and becoming the first Republican to sweep the South, whereas McGovern took just 37.5% of the popular vote. Meanwhile, this marked the last time the Republican nominee carried Minnesota in a presidential election. This also made Nixon the first two-term vice president to be elected president twice. The 1972 election was the first since the ratification of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, further expanding the electorate. Despite this election delivering Nixon's greatest electoral triumph, Nixon later wrote in his memoirs that "it was one of the most frustrating and in many ways the least satisfying of all".

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Ava Morgan (Maps) Ilustrador. First Printing [Stated]. vi,[2], 151, [1] pages. The Table of Contents includes chapters on Background, Operation Avalanche, Code Word: Orkan, Operation Avalanche Assault; Operation Avalanche Ebb and Flow, followed by Brief Glossary of Military terms, Types of Aircraft at Salerno, Allied Casualties in operation avalanche, Suggested Reading, and Index. This book narrates the story of Operation Avalanche--the invasion of the Italian mainland on September 9, 1943, by Anglo-American forces. No man who fought at Salerno will ever forget the hardships, disappointment, and heartbreak of Operation Avalanche, which had been launched amid predictions of swift victory. Instead of a speedy triumph, the invasion met near disaster. One noted historian declared: "It should have been named Avalanche of Errors, not Operation Avalanche." Irving Werstein was an author of some 40 books. His experience as an infantry soldier in the Army in World War II and his work as a correspondent, for Yank Magazine had a major influence on his writing career. A careful researcher, he read the battle reports and journals of both sides, interviewed soldiers and read their letters and diaries and contemporary publications for background. He once recounted, "These young warriors are the central figures of my books." His books covered such varied conflicts as "Battle of Salerno," " "Seventeen Seventy Six: The Adventures of the American Revolution Told with Pictures," and "Ten Days in November: The Russian Revolution." In 1938 he sold a pulp magazine story for $15, an event that caused him to decide to take up free lance writing full-time. Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops. Planned under the name Top Hat, it was supported by the deception plan Operation Boardman. The landings were carried out by the US Fifth Army, under American General Mark W. Clark. It comprised the U.S. VI Corps, the British X Corps and the US 82nd Airborne Division, a total of about nine divisions. Its primary objectives were to seize the port of Naples to ensure resupply, and to cut across to the east coast, trapping the Axis troops further south. In order to draw troops away from the landing ground, Operation Baytown was mounted. This was a landing by the British Eighth Army in Calabria in the 'toe' of Italy, on 3 September. Simultaneous sea landings were made by the British 1st Airborne Division at the port of Taranto (Operation Slapstick). British General Bernard Montgomery had predicted Baytown would be a waste of effort because it assumed the Germans would give battle in Calabria; if they failed to do so, the diversion would not work. He was proved correct. After Baytown, the Eighth Army marched 300 miles (480 km) north to the Salerno area against no opposition other than engineer obstacles. The Salerno landings were carried out without previous naval or aerial bombardment in order to achieve surprise. Surprise was not achieved. As the first wave approached the shore at Paestum a loudspeaker from the landing area proclaimed in English, "Come on in and give up. We have you covered." The troops attacked nonetheless. The Germans had established artillery and machine-gun posts and scattered tanks through the landing zones which made progress difficult, but the beach areas were captured. Around 07:00 a concerted counterattack was made by the 16th Panzer Division. It caused heavy casualties but was beaten off. Both the British and the Americans made slow progress, and still had a 10 miles (16 km) gap between them at the end of day one. They linked up by the end of day two and occupied 35-45 miles of coastline to a depth of 6-7 miles. Over 12-14 September the Germans organized a concerted counterattack by six divisions of motorized troops, hoping to throw the Salerno beachhead into the sea before it could link with the British Eighth Army. Heavy casualties were inflicted, as the Allied troops were too thinly spread to be able to resist concentrated attacks. The outermost troops were therefore withdrawn in order to reduce the perimeter. The new perimeter was held with the assistance of naval and aerial support, although the German attacks reached almost to the beaches in places. With the Salerno beachhead secure, the 5th Army could begin to attack northwest towards Naples.