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UNINA9910453155203321 |
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Glasser Joshua M. <1987-> |
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The eighteen-day running mate [[electronic resource] ] : McGovern, Eagleton, and a campaign in crisis / / Joshua M. Glasser |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012 |
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1-280-88043-0 |
9786613721747 |
0-300-18337-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (390 p.) |
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Presidents - United States - Election - 1972 |
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United States Politics and government 1969-1974 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The conundrum -- The candidate -- The campaign -- The wrench -- The upstart -- The game -- The pipedream -- The selection -- The running mate -- The investigation -- The disclosure -- The aftershock -- The muckraker -- The tablehopping -- The sunday shows -- The precedent -- The decision -- The aftermath -- Epilogue. |
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No skeletons were rattling in his closet, Thomas Eagleton assured George McGovern's political director. But only eighteen days later-after a series of damaging public revelations and feverish behind-the-scenes maneuverings-McGovern rescinded his endorsement of his Democratic vice-presidential running mate, and Eagleton withdrew from the ticket. This fascinating book is the first to uncover the full story behind Eagleton's rise and precipitous fall as a national candidate.Within days of Eagleton's nomination, a pair of anonymous phone calls brought to light his history of hospitalizations for "nervous exhaustion and depression" and past treatment with electroshock therapy. The revelation rattled the campaign and placed McGovern's organization under intense public and media scrutiny. Joshua Glasser investigates a campaign in disarray and explores the perspectives of the campaign's key players, how decisions were made and who made them, how |
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cultural attitudes toward mental illness informed the crisis, and how Eagleton's and McGovern's personal ambitions shaped the course of events.Drawing on personal interviews with McGovern, campaign manager Gary Hart, political director Frank Mankiewicz, and dozens of other participants inside and outside the McGovern and Eagleton camps-as well as extensive unpublished campaign records-Glasser captures the political and human drama of Eagleton's brief candidacy. Glasser also offers sharp insights into the America of 1972-mired in war, anxious about the economy, ambivalent about civil rights. |
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UNINA9910315358303321 |
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Autore |
Al Deek Akram |
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Writing Displacement : Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction / / by Akram Al Deek |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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[1st ed. 2016.] |
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1 online resource (IX, 204 p.) |
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LIT004100LIT004120LIT004220 |
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Middle Eastern literature |
European literature |
America - Literatures |
Literature - History and criticism |
Fiction |
Literature - Philosophy |
Middle Eastern Literature |
European Literature |
North American Literature |
Literary History |
Fiction Literature |
Literary Theory |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index. |
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1. Writing Displacement -- 2. Displacing Cultural Identity -- 3. The Windrush Generation: Remapping England and Its Literature -- 4. Masala Fish: Cultural Synthesis and Literary Adventuring -- 5. Promoting Cultural Diversity/Multiculturalism Post 9/11: A Conclusion. |
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This book studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst migrant nationals after WWII, using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions. From Sam Selvon to Salman Rushdie and Edward Said to Homi Bhabha, the author here reroutes filiation to affiliation. The text troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging; it celebrates the freedom to be 'out of place' which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or pushed aside in cultural translation, without falling into mental ghettoisation. |
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