The Making Of The President 1960 Analysis

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In his novel The Making of the President 1960, Theodore H. White uses the “great federal census” to establish just how critical the changes in the American public demographic were to the election of the president. White considers the census of 1960 to be a marker of a new frontier in American culture and lifestyle, discussing how the move of Americans to suburbia and the growth of minority groups changed political affiliations. The 1960 census allows the reader to see exactly what circumstances in American society allowed for the seemingly impossible election of Kennedy to occur. White begins by discussing the population growth at the time the census was taken. He says that the population of America was steadily growing, and yet the population