American Maelstrom : The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
Michael A. Cohen
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | : : Oxford University Press, , 2016.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (462 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover ; American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division; Copyright ; Dedication ; Epigraphs; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction ; Part I: Before ; 1 "A Lotta People . . . Ain't Gonna Put Up with It Much Longer" ; 2 Losing the "Middle Ground" ; Part II: The Democrats ; 3 "A Quiet, Witty Man of Gray Presence" ; 4 The (Un)happy Warrior. - 5 "The Most Misunderstood Man in American Public Life" 6 Out Like a Lion ; 7 The Philosopher versus the Evangelist ; 8 The "Politics of Joy"? ; Part III: The Republicans ; 9 The New, New Nixon ; 10 "Watching a Duck Trying to Make Love to a Football" ; 11 The "Doer" and the "Rising Star of the West". - Acknowledgments Notes ; Bibliographic Essay ; Index. - Part IV: Wallace 12 "We're Tired of This Mess" ; Part V: A Tale of Two Conventions ; 13 A "Plastic Paradise" ; 14 "The Democrats Are Finished" ; Part VI: The General Election ; 15 "Overconfidence Is Not Our Thing" ; 16 The Final Storm ; Part VII: After ; 17 "They Have Just Elected a Papier-Mâché Man" ; 18 "It's Never Stopped Being 1968". - In American Maelstrom, Michael A. Cohen captures the full drama of this watershed election, establishing 1968 as the hinge between the decline of political liberalism and the ascendancy of conservative populism and the anti-government attitudes that continue to dominate the nation's political discourse, taking us to the source of the politics of division.
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| ISBN | 9780199777563 (hbk.) : : £18.99
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