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Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party's Soul
Timothy Stanley
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Description for Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party's Soul
Hardcover. Offers a look at how Jimmy Carter alienated his own supporters, why Ted Kennedy ran against him, what the Kennedy campaign has to say about America in the 1970s, and whether or not the 1980 election really was a turning point in electoral history. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
The late Edward Kennedy's liberal credentials were unimpeachable, and perhaps never as much on display as when he challenged incumbent Jimmy Carter for the presidency. Most accounts of modern U.S. politics view Ronald Reagan's landslide election in 1980 as a conservative realignment of the American public - and Kennedy's defeat in the Democratic primaries as the last hurrah of New Deal liberalism. Now an astute observer of the American scene reexamines those primary battles to contend that Kennedy's insurgent campaign was more popular than historians have presumed and was defeated only by historical accident and not by its perceived radicalism. ... Read more
The late Edward Kennedy's liberal credentials were unimpeachable, and perhaps never as much on display as when he challenged incumbent Jimmy Carter for the presidency. Most accounts of modern U.S. politics view Ronald Reagan's landslide election in 1980 as a conservative realignment of the American public - and Kennedy's defeat in the Democratic primaries as the last hurrah of New Deal liberalism. Now an astute observer of the American scene reexamines those primary battles to contend that Kennedy's insurgent campaign was more popular than historians have presumed and was defeated only by historical accident and not by its perceived radicalism. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700617029
SKU
V9780700617029
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About Timothy Stanley
Timothy Stanley is Leverhulme Research Fellow, Royal Holloway College, University of London, and coauthor of The End of Politics: Triangulation, Realignment and the Battle for the Centre Ground.
Reviews for Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party's Soul
"A fresh, engaging, and insightful account of Ted Kennedy and American liberalism at a turning point. At the heart of Stanley's book is a startling thesis: our standard accounts of contemporary American politics, in which Ronald Reagan was bound to rise as liberalism fell, have it wrong." Bruce Miroff, author of The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity ... Read more