In 1968, more than 100 years after the Civil War, the United States again found itself a divided nation. This time the dividing issue was war -- the conflict in Vietnam, which had escalated during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson. The presidential campaign was marred by violence -- the assassination of Robert Kennedy after his victory in the California primary marked him as the leading Democratic candidate; the brutal police beatings of protestors outside the Democratic Party's national convention in Chicago. In one of the closest elections in American history. Republican Richard Nixon completed the resurrection of his political career by defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey and third-party candidate George Wallace. In The Election of 1968 and the Administration of Richard Nixon, historian and best-selling author Stephen Ambrose discusses this pivotal election. Book jacket.