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Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government (American Presidential Elections)
Michael Nelson
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Description for Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government (American Presidential Elections)
Hardcover. Provocative study of the 1968 election that pitted Richard Nixon against Hubert Humphrey and convincingly shows how the parties successfully managed a divided government during an era of social and political upheaval. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
To look at the partisan polarisation that paralyses Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race - all pointed to a reordering of party coalitions, of groups and regions, a hardening and widening of an ideological divide - and to the historical importance of the 1968 election as a watershed event.
Resilient America captures this extraordinary time in all its drama - the personalities, the ... Read more
To look at the partisan polarisation that paralyses Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race - all pointed to a reordering of party coalitions, of groups and regions, a hardening and widening of an ideological divide - and to the historical importance of the 1968 election as a watershed event.
Resilient America captures this extraordinary time in all its drama - the personalities, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619634
SKU
V9780700619634
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99-31
About Michael Nelson
Michael Nelson, the Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College, is a Fellow of Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History and a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2011, with Sidney M. Milkis and How the South Joined the ... Read more
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