Michael A Cohen

American Maelstrom

The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

American Maelstrom captures the full drama of the 1968 watershed election, taking us to the source of the politics of division.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 146mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9780190878030
• ISBN-10: 0190878037
• Artikelnr.: 49563860

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Cohen is a national political columnist for The Boston Globe. He writes regularly on American politics and U.S. foreign policy and has previously been a columnist for the Guardian and Foreign Policy. He is the author of Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Editor's Note
Introduction
PART I: Before
Chapter 1: Backlash
Chapter 2: Losing the Middle Ground
PART II: The Democrats
Chapter 3. "A Quiet, Witty Man of Grey Presence"
Chapter 4. The (Un)happy Warrior
Chapter 5: "The Most Misunderstood Man in American Politics"
Chapter 6. "...Out Like A Lion"
Chapter 7: "The Evangelist vs. the Philosopher"
Chapter 8: "The Politics of Joy?"
PART III: The Republicans
Chapter 9: The Cipher
Chapter 10: The Short-Lived George Romney Boomlet
Chapter 11: The "Doer" and. the "Rising Star of the West"
PART IV: Wallace
Chapter 12: The Demagogue
PART V: A Tale of Two Conventions
Chapter 13: A "Plastic Paradise"
Chapter 14: "A City That Works"
PART VI: The General Election
Chapter 15: What Goes Up Must Come Down; What Goes Down Must Come Up
Chapter 16: The Final Storm
PART VII: After
Chapter 17: Post-Mortem
Chapter 18: The Legacy of 1968
Acknowledgements
Bibliographic Essay