American Maelstrom
The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 August 2018
- ISBN 9780190878030
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 147x229x33 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 b/w illustrations 0
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Short description:
American Maelstrom captures the full drama of the 1968 watershed election, taking us to the source of the politics of division.
MoreLong description:
In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic prosperity, and a strong wave of nostalgia for his martyred predecessor, John F. Kennedy, Johnson announced the most ambitious government agenda in decades. Three years later, everything had changed. Johnson's approval ratings had plummeted; the liberal consensus was shattered; the war in Vietnam splintered the nation; and the politics of civil rights had created a fierce white backlash. A report from the National Committee for an Effective Congress warned of a "national nervous breakdown."
The election of 1968 was immediately caught up in a swirl of powerful forces, and the nine men who sought the nation's highest office that year attempted to ride them to victory-or merely survive them. On the Democratic side, Eugene McCarthy energized the anti-war movement; George Wallace spoke to the working-class white backlash; Robert Kennedy took on the mantle of his slain brother. Entangled in Vietnam, Johnson, stunningly, opted not to run again, scrambling the odds. On the Republican side, 1968 saw the vindication of Richard Nixon, who outhustled Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Romney by navigating between the conservative and moderate wings of the Republican Party. The assassinations of the first Martin Luther King, Jr., and then Kennedy, seemed to push the country to the brink of chaos, a chaos reflected in the Democratic Convention in Chicago, a televised horror show. Vice President Hubert Humphrey emerged as the nominee, and, finally liberating himself from Johnson's grip, nearly overcame the lead long enjoyed by Nixon, who, by exploiting division and channeling the national yearning for order, would be the last man standing.
In American Maelstrom, Michael A. Cohen captures the full drama of this watershed election, establishing 1968 as the hinge between the decline of political liberalism, the ascendancy of conservative populism, and the rise of anti-governmental attitudes that continue to dominate the nation's political discourse. In this sweeping and immersive book, equal parts compelling analysis and thrilling narrative, Cohen takes us to the very source of our modern politics of division.
well-written and highly readable narratives ... thorough in their presentation and offer compelling narratives that a general audience will enjoy and details that will help provide the foundations for scholars to launch into deeper analyses about the sixties, presidential politics, and a host of other fields of inquiry.
Table of Contents:
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
