Newsbooks: The Rush to Report the Race

Because of his competitive, hard-driving temperament, David English, as sociate editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, is admiringly referred to as a "flyer." That temperament served English well when he and a team of top Express reporters set out to produce a book on the 1968 U.S. presidential election. Divided They Stand (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) is not only the first full-length study of that memorable race. It is also brisk, readable and sharply focused, with a detached perspective that injects freshness into familiar events.

English deployed his men before the New Hampshire...

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