“After that, Teddy White’s “Making of the President” series of political campaign books began to look more and more like dull official narrative histories.”
I read several of those. Mom had them in paperback. Great summer reads.
White’s books are essential but limited. With what we know now, White’s account of the 1960 Kennedy campaign reads like a fairy tale, with no hint of JFK’s relentless womanizing. And the discrepancy between White’s tomes and what actually happened behind the scenes eventually became a burden even for White, who after 1972 professed himself a practitioner of traditional journalism, not a psychologist or muckraker or peeper through keyholes.