THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960 (400 pp.)Theodore H. WhiteAtheneum ($6.95). John Fitzgerald Kennedy was slumped wearily on the edge of his bed, grizzle-chinned and wearing rumpled white pajamas, when Ted Sorensen, his closest aide, brought him the news that he had won in California and had thus been elected President of the United States. (Sorensen was right with the news, wrong with his facts: absentee ballots shifted California's electoral votes to Richard Nixon a few days later, but Illinois finished in Kennedy's column and clinched his hairbreadth victory.) The two men, soon joined by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, sat on...
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