Books by Robert Donovan

A newspaper reporter since 1933, Robert J. Donovan by 1961 was Chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. He was with President Truman throughout the famous "whistle-stop" campaign of 1948 and on his trip to Wake Island to confer with General MacArthur. He traveled with President Eisenhower during the 1952 and 1956 campaigns, and wrote the number-one bestselling Eisenhower: The Inside Story in 1956. Donovan contributed to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and Harper's. He covered Kennedy's campaign for the White House, including the four Kennedy-Nixon televised debates, and subsequently traveled with Kennedy on his overseas trips.