Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

Lawrence O'Donnell
324.973 Odo

Kirkus Reviews calls this book, “an excellent account of the 1968 presidential election, a political season of spoilers, outsiders, and broken machines eerily like our own time and compares favorably to Theodore H. White’s president’s series.


Historical Elections

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  • 1960 : LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: the Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies


  • Realigning America : McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896


  • Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win


  • Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.


  • Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876


  • Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign


  • 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents


  • Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics


  • Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime