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

from ghr4

Lawrence O'Donnell's Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics is an engaging account of the tumultuos 1968 presidential campaign and America's social and political divisions primarily precipitated by the escalating Vietnam War and the growing anti-war movem...

from sallylou61

Playing with Fire by Lawrence O'Donnell is an excellent, comprehensive view of the 1968 presidential election. Thru short chapters, Mr. O'Donnell described what was occurring in the different campaigns (or non-campaigns) from late 1967 through the election, going from one candidate or party to th...

from nmele

I as not eager to read this book for some reason but I learned quite a bit about the 1968 campaign during which I was a low level but enthusiastic "Clean for Gene" kid. The negotiating among the candidates and between several of them and LBJ offered new windows into the government and, for me, th...

from Schmerguls

5547. Playing With Fire The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics, by Lawrence O'Donnell (read 29 Mar 2018) I thought I knew all that one needed to know about the politics of the year 1968. I attended 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago having been elected an alternate deleg...

from writemoves

I do not ordinarily read books authored by "talking heads" who host show on cable TV networks. However this was a well researched and well-written book about the 1968 presidential election. Given that I lived during this time, I was very intrigued by what I would learn and what I had forgotten fr...