Making a departure from his sweeping historical novels, James Michener chronicles his personal involvement in one of the most dramatic elections of the 20th century: the presidential race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Michener served as the Democratic chairman in his native Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in a rural battleground precinct where the major controversies of the day—notably Kennedy's Catholicism—brought cultural divides to the forefront. First published shortly after the 1960 election, this memoir remains an intimate, gripping account of the power of grassroots political involvement.