The Making of the (First Celebrity) President: 1960

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MICHAEL DUFFY, TIME magazine’s assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief, will discuss the making of the Kennedy candidacy and campaign. In 1995, Duffy won the Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He co-wrote 13 cover stories with his TIME colleague Nancy Gibbs in 1996. Duffy won the 1998 Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting as a member of a team covering the campaign-finance scandals. He is the co-author of “Marching in Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush” and “The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House.”