03879nam 2200613 450 991079834790332120230808193343.00-19-938212-30-19-977761-6(CKB)3710000000712505(EBL)4545475(SSID)ssj0001645571(PQKBManifestationID)16413910(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001645571(PQKBWorkID)13336004(PQKB)10231155(MiAaPQ)EBC4545475(Au-PeEL)EBL4545475(CaPaEBR)ebr11237377(OCoLC)953456219(EXLCZ)99371000000071250520160811h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican Maelstrom the 1968 election and politics of division /Michael A. CohenOxford, England :Oxford University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (462 p.)Pivotal Moments in American HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-087803-7 0-19-977756-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Warrior5 "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 ; IndexIn 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.Pivotal moments in American history.PresidentsUnited StatesElection1968United StatesPolitics and government1963-1969PresidentsElection324.9730924Cohen Michael A.1971-1556839MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798347903321American Maelstrom3819856UNINA