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The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960

The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 Hardcover. 261 pp. - 2009

by Casey, Shaun

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  • Title The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960
  • Author Casey, Shaun
  • Binding Hardcover. 261 pp.
  • Edition First Edition, First Printing
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Date 2009
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0004417
  • ISBN 9780195374483 / 0195374487
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Kennedy, John F, United States - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008030375
  • Dewey Decimal Code 322.109

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The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated--New York Governor Al Smith in 1928--he was routed in the general election. From the outset, Kennedy saw the religion issue as the single most important obstacle on his road to the White House. He was acutely aware of, and deeply frustrated by, the possibility that his personal religious beliefs could keep him out of the White House.
In The Making of a Catholic President, Shaun Casey tells the fascinating story of how the Kennedy campaign transformed the "religion question" from a liability into an asset, making him the first (and still only) Catholic president. Drawing on extensive archival research, including many never-before-seen documents, Casey takes us inside the campaign to show Kennedy's chief advisors--Ted Sorensen, John Kenneth Galbraith, Archibald Cox--grappling with the staunch opposition to the candidate's Catholicism. Casey also reveals, for the first time, many of the Nixon campaign's efforts to tap in to anti-Catholic sentiment, with the aid of Billy Graham and the National Association of Evangelicals, among others. The alliance between conservative Protestants and the Nixon campaign, he shows, laid the groundwork for the rise of the Religious Right. This book will shed light on one of the most talked-about elections in American history, as well as on the vexed relationship between religion and politics more generally.
With clear relevance to our own political situation--where politicians' religious beliefs seem more important and more volatile than ever--The Making of a Catholic President offers rare insights into one of the most extraordinary presidential campaigns in American history.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2009, Page 28
  • Choice, 08/01/2009, Page 0
  • Christian Century, 07/28/2009, Page 37
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 02/27/2009, Page 18
  • Commonweal, 08/14/2009, Page 33
  • Library Journal, 01/15/2009, Page 96

About the author

Shaun A. Casey is senior adviser for Religious Affairs and Evangelical Coordinator for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Casey is also Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the National Capital Semester for Seminarians at Wesley Theological Seminary. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

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