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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798347903321

Autore

Cohen Michael A. <1971->

Titolo

American Maelstrom : the 1968 election and politics of division / / Michael A. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-19-938212-3

0-19-977761-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (462 p.)

Collana

Pivotal Moments in American History

Disciplina

324.9730924

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 1968

United States Politics and government 1963-1969

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 ; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.