Convention

New York: Harper and Row, 1964. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. [8], 343, [1] pages. DJ has some wear, scuffs small tears and soiling. Inscribed on half title page and signed by both authors. Inscription, in Bailey's hand, reads For Clay Moritz, who may someday play a part in a convention himself. With best wishes, Charles W. Bailey II, [and signed in his hand by] Fletcher Kenbel. Charles Waldo Bailey II (April 28, 1929 - January 3, 2012) was an American journalist, newspaper editor and novelist. He graduated from Harvard University in 1950. He then worked for the Minneapolis Tribune, serving as its editor from 1972 to 1982. He was Washington editor for National Public Radio from 1984-87. Bailey co-wrote, with Fletcher Knebel, the best-selling political thriller novel Seven Days in May (1962), and several other novels. Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 - February 26, 1993) was an American author. Knebel graduated from Miami University during 1934. Upon graduation, he spent the next 20 years working for newspapers, eventually becoming the political columnist for Cowles Publications. From 1951 to 1964, he satirized national politics and government in a nationally published column named "Potomac Fever". During 1960, he wrote a chapter on John F. Kennedy for the book Candidates 1960. He wrote fifteen books, most of them fiction, and all of them dealing with politics, intrigue and social upheaval. His best-known novel is Seven Days in May was about an attempted military coup in the United States. The book reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and was made into a successful movie also named Seven Days in May during 1964. A Republican National Convention, complete with the intrigue, excitement, joy, and disappointment that accompany politics, supplies the background for this fictionalized rendition of the process by which a presidential candidate is chosen. Secretary of the Treasury Charles B. Manchester, the party's leading candidate, goes to the nominating convention in Chicago with high hopes only to see union leaders, the President, and a majority of the delegates turn against him as he reveals his platform.