1972 United States presidential election

==Bibliography and further reading==

* Alexander, Herbert E. '' Financing the 1972 Election'' (1976) [https://archive.org/details/financing1972ele0000alex online]

* {{cite journal |last=Giglio |first=James N. |title=The Eagleton Affair: Thomas Eagleton, George McGovern, and the 1972 Vice Presidential Nomination |journal=[[Presidential Studies Quarterly]] |year=2009 |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=647–676 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-5705.2009.03731.x |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last=Graebner |first=Norman A. |title=Presidential Politics in a Divided America: 1972 |journal=[[Australian Journal of Politics and History]] |year=1973 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=28–47 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8497.1973.tb00722.x }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Hofstetter |first1=C. Richard |last2=Zukin |first2=Cliff |title=TV Network News and Advertising in the Nixon and McGovern Campaigns |journal=[[Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly]] |year=1979 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=106–152 |doi=10.1177/107769907905600117 |s2cid=144048423 }}
** Hofstetter, C. Richard. ''Bias in the news: Network television coverage of the 1972 election campaign'' (Ohio State University Press, 1976) [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159552578.pdf online]
* Johnstone, Andrew, and Andrew Priest, eds.  ''US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton'' (2017) pp 203–228. [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/50578/ online]
* Miller, Arthur H., et al. "A majority party in disarray: Policy polarization in the 1972 election." ''American Political Science Review'' 70.3 (1976): 753-778; widely cited; [https://doi.org/10.2307/1959866 online]
* {{cite journal |last=Nicholas |first=H. G. |title=The 1972 Elections |journal=[[Journal of American Studies]] |year=1973 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=1–15 |doi=10.1017/S0021875800012585 |s2cid=145606732 }}
*  Perry, James M. ''Us & them: how the press covered the 1972 election'' (1973) [https://archive.org/details/usthemhowpress00perr online]

* Simons, Herbert W., James W. Chesebro, and C. Jack Orr. "A movement perspective on the 1972 presidential election." ''Quarterly Journal of Speech'' 59.2 (1973): 168-179. [https://nca.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00335637309383165 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923034438/https://nca.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00335637309383165 |date=September 23, 2022 }}
* Trent, Judith S., and Jimmie D. Trent. "The rhetoric of the challenger: George Stanley McGovern." ''Communication Studies'' 25.1 (1974): 11-18.

* {{cite book |last=White |first=Theodore H. |author-link=Theodore H. White |title=The Making of the President, 1972 |location=New York |publisher=Atheneum |year=1973 |isbn=0-689-10553-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/makingofpresident00whit |url-access=registration }}

===Primary sources===
* Chester, Edward W. (1977). [https://archive.org/details/guidetopolitical0000ches ''A guide to political platforms''].
* Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. ''National party platforms, 1840–1972'' (1973)