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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797183303321

Autore

Donaldson Gary

Titolo

Liberalism's last hurrah : the presidential campaign of 1964 / / Gary Donaldson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-70285-1

1-317-46609-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Disciplina

324.973/0923

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 1964

Liberalism - United States - History - 20th century

United States Politics and government 1963-1969

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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