02816nam 2200553Ia 450 991077757660332120230207224626.0979-88-908728-1-40-8078-7592-9(CKB)1000000000456660(EBL)413351(OCoLC)476237077(SSID)ssj0000238153(PQKBManifestationID)11188354(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238153(PQKBWorkID)10222347(PQKB)10455028(Au-PeEL)EBL413351(CaPaEBR)ebr10116530(CaONFJC)MIL930233(MiAaPQ)EBC413351(EXLCZ)99100000000045666020040423d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRichard Nixon and the quest for a new majority[electronic resource] /Robert MasonChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1493-6 0-8078-2905-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-280) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE. THE FORGOTTEN AMERICANS: The Republican Quest for a Majority in the 1960's; TWO. MIDDLE AMERICA AND THE SILENT MAJORITY: Issues, 1969-1970; THREE. THERE'S A REALIGNMENT GOING ON: The Redefinition of the Republican Party, 1970; FOUR. THE NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Issues, 1970-1972; FIVE. PRESIDENT NIXON FOR PRESIDENT: The Rejection of the Republican Party, 1972; SIX. FROM NIXON TO REAGAN: The End of the Quest for a New Majority, 1972-1976; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century. In Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority, Robert Mason analyzes Nixon's response to the developing conservative climate and challenges revisionist claims about the activist nature of the Nixon administration. Nixon was an activist in intent, Mason contends, but not in deed. Nixon's ""silent majority"" speech of 1969 not only undermined the growth of the antiwar...ConservatismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1969-1974ConservatismHistory973.924/092Mason Robert1970-626162MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777576603321Richard Nixon and the quest for a new majority1218499UNINA