I read my first campaign memoir when The Making of a President by Theodore White was released in paperback in the early 1960s. I was hooked. An adolescent at the time, I found the behind-the-scenes look at a presidential campaign to be compelling reading, as did the jurists of the Pulitzer organization who awarded it the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
So compelling was that volume that I became an avid political junkie in my teens, as interested in the process as in the policy. Since then, I have read countless books on every presidential election, at least those that covered Democratic victors. I will freely admit to a bias in my political reading, having no real desire to witness Republican revels after their candidate won the White House.
This year is different.
It feels essential to understand how Donald Trump, eminently unsuited and distressingly incapable, wound up in the Oval Office. So far, the only one to give me conclusive answers is Hillary Clinton in her book, What Happened. And while I plan on writing about that, this week I want to take a look at the other side.
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