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Books About Political Conventions

These histories take in-depth look at past Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the roles they played in American politics.

Chicago Public Library

10 items

  • 1968

    the Year That Rocked the World

    Kurlansky, Mark
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, c2004. — D848.K87 2004
  • Battleground Chicago

    the Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention

    Kusch, Frank, 1959-
    PaperbackChicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008. — HV8148.C42K87 2008
  • Happy Days Are Here Again

    the 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever

    Neal, Steve, 1949-
    BookNew York : William Morrow, c2004. — E805.N43 2004
  • For a Voice and the Vote

    My Journey With the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

    Todd, Lisa Anderson, 1942-
    BookLexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — E185.93.M6T63 2014
  • The Lincoln Miracle

    Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History

    Achorn, Edward,
    BookNew York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2023] — E440.A24 2023
  • Miami and the Siege of Chicago

    An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

    Mailer, Norman
    PaperbackNew York : New York Review Books, c2008. — JK2353 1968.M34 2008
  • No One Was Killed

    the Democratic National Convention, August 1968

    Schultz, John, 1932-2017
    PaperbackChicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009. — F548.52.S3 2009
  • Reagan's Revolution

    the Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All

    Shirley, Craig
    BookNashville, Tenn. : Nelson Current, c2005. — E875.S46 2005
  • When the News Broke

    Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America /

    Hendershot, Heather,
    BookChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022. — F548.52.H46 2022