The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American
politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L.
Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way
Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how
Republicans used the skills they brought to Richard Nixon's campaign
to create a generation-long ascendancy in presidential politics; and
how Democrats, divided and torn after 1968, emerged as only crippled
challengers for the White House throughout most of the years until the
early twenty-first century. Bitterness over racial issues and the
Vietnam War that marked the 1968 election continued to shape national
affairs and to rile American society for years afterward. And the
election accelerated an erosion of confidence in American institutions
that has not yet reached a conclusion. In his lucid account, now
revised and updated, Mr. Gould emphasizes the importance of race as
the campaign's key issue and examines the now infamous "October
surprises" of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon as he describes the
extraordinary events of what Eugene McCarthy later called the "Hard
Year."
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ISBN
9781566639101
Publisert
2012
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Ivan R Dee
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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