UID:
edocfu_9959870340602883
Format:
1 online resource (388 p.)
ISBN:
1-315-70285-1
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1-317-46609-8
Content:
Marked by sharp ideological divisions over civil rights, Vietnam, and federal power, the 1964 presidential campaign between Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Barry Goldwater proved a watershed election in American history. Although Johnson defeated Goldwater in a landslide and liberalism seemed to ride triumphant, the liberal wave crashed almost immediately and conservatives came to dominate a resurgent Republican Party in the late twentieth century. Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, this is the first historical account of this crucial election, and the transition it marked f
Note:
First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe.
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1. Conservatives in the "modern" world of Eisenhower, and the rise of Goldwater -- 2. The democrats resurgent and the rise of the Boston-Austin Axis -- 3. Goldwater ambivalence and the decision to run -- 4. Early republican battlegrounds and the rise of George Wallace -- 5. Lyndon Johnson and the reins of power -- 6. Conservation triumphant : Wallace and Goldwater in the primary season -- 7. Guillotine : the Jacobins remove the ancien regime -- 8. LBJ's "Bobby problem" and the Humphrey string-along -- 9. The king is dead. Long live the king -- 10. Goldwater and Johnson in a cause predetermined -- 11. Home stretch -- 12. Analysis.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-87332-160-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7656-1119-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315702858
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