Chris Wallace appears again at Nixon-Kennedy election within the e-book "Countdown 1960"

Longtime newsman Chris Wallace isn’t solely fascinated with this yr’s presidential election.

The CNN anchor has written a e-book on the race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, narrowly received by Kennedy, that featured the primary televised presidential debates. Dutton introduced Wednesday that “Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 311 Days that Modified America’s Politics Endlessly” will likely be printed Oct. 8.

“The 1960 presidential election modified every little thing,” Wallace stated in an announcement. “It was the primary to be carried out largely on tv. The primary to characteristic debates between the 2 main social gathering candidates. The primary the place each candidates had been born within the twentieth century.”

Wallace added: The 1960 marketing campaign was “marked by allegations the election had been stolen,” a precursor to Donald Trump’s baseless allegations that the 2020 election was stolen and that he didn’t lose to Joe Biden.

Wallace co-wrote the brand new e-book with Mitch Weiss, who additionally collaborated with Wallace on the bestsellers “Countdown 1945” and “Countdown bin Laden.”