Format:
1 Online-Ressource (462 p)
ISBN:
9780199777617
Series Statement:
Pivotal Moments in American History
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
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" -- 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" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199777617
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cohen, Michael A., 1944 - American Maelstrom New York : Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780199777563
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Nixon, Richard M. 1913-1994
;
Humphrey, Hubert H. 1911-1978
;
USA Präsident
;
Präsidentenwahl
;
Geschichte 1968
;
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