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

Lawrence O'Donnell

eBook - 2017

The New York Times bestseller!"A thriller-like, propulsive tour through 1968, told by a man who is in love with American politics and who knows how all the dots connect. Brilliant and totally engrossing."-Rachel Maddow"Delightful...brings to life the most fascinating election of modern times."-Walter IsaacsonFrom the celebrated host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, an enthralling account of the presidential election that created American politics as we know it todayLong before Lawrence O'Donnell was the anchor of his own political talk show, he was a senior adviser to Senator Patrick Moynihan, one of postwar America’s wisest political minds. The 1968 U.S. presidential election—marked by RFK�...��s assassination, massive upheaval in the Democratic Party, and the first of Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks—was O’Donnell’s own... more