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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807742003321

Autore

Donaldson Gary A.

Titolo

When America liked Ike : how moderates won the 1952 Presidential Election and reshaped American politics / / Gary A. Donaldson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4422-1175-X

1-4422-1177-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 pages)

Classificazione

HIS036060POL030000POL008000

Disciplina

329.023730918

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 1952

Elections - United States

United States Politics and government 1945-1953

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: "Background to the Age, and the Scramble to Nominate Eisenhower" -- Chapter 2: Stevenson of Illinois -- Chapter 3: Eisenhower Decides to Run -- Chapter 4: Truman Decides Not to Run -- Chapter 5: Democrats on the Periphery: Russell and Kefauver and the Democratic Party Primaries -- Chapter 6: The1952 Campaign as the Beginning of the Future of American Politics -- Chapter 7: Conventions -- Chapter 8: The Campaign -- Election Statistics -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this book, Gary Donaldson argues that the 1952 presidential election, which exposed deep internal divisions on the left and the right, set the stage for the current U.S. political landscape. This book will prove an invaluable resource to readers, students, and scholars interested in rooting out the origins of our contemporary political landscape, on the right and the left"--