A Joe McGinniss book whose title parodies this book series has a cover with Richard Nixon’s face advertising an open cigarette carton. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Theodore White book series that covered presidential elections from 1960 to 1972 in a genre of literary campaign journalism continued by Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.
ANSWER: The Making of the President (McGinniss wrote The Selling of the President 1968.)
[10m] White’s final edition referenced a reform commission headed by Donald Fraser and this senator in the aftermath of the 1968 DNC. This politician was frequently smeared as being for “acid, amnesty, and abortion.”
ANSWER: George McGovern [or George Stanley McGovern; accept McGovern–Fraser Commission]
[10e] The smear derived from an anonymous quote by McGovern’s running mate for 18 days, Thomas Eagleton, before he was dropped over revelations he had undergone this anti-depression treatment.
ANSWER: electroshock therapy [or electroconvulsive therapy or ECT]
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