Robert H Donaldson

Liberalism's Last Hurrah

The Presidential Campaign of 1964

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work shows how the 1964 presidential campaign between Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Barry Goldwater proved a watershed election in American history. Figures include Wallace, Rockefeller, Nixon, Reagan, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and George Bush.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780765611192
• ISBN-10: 0765611198
• Artikelnr.: 21821351

Autorenporträt

Gary Donaldson is professor of history at Xavier University in New Orleans. He also holds the John D. LaFarge Endowed Professorship in Social Justice. During the 1991-92 academic year, and again in 1997-98, he served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in China, teaching twentieth-century American foreign policy and politics at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His books include Truman Defeats Dewey (1998); America at War Since 1945: Foreign Policy and Politics in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War (1996); and Abundance and Anxiety: America, 1945-1960 (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Conservatives in the "Modern" World of Eisenhower, and the Rise of Goldwater
Chapter 2 The Democrats Resurgent and the Rise of the Boston-Austin Axis
Chapter 3 Goldwater Ambivalence and the Decision to Run
Chapter 4 Early Republican Battlegrounds and the Rise of George Wallace
Chapter 5 Lyndon Johnson and the Reins of Power
Chapter 6 Conservatism Triumphant: Wallace and Goldwater in the Primary Season
Chapter 7 Guillotine: The Jacobins Remove the Ancien Régime
Chapter 8 LBJ's "Bobby Problem" and the Humphrey String-along
Chapter 9 The King Is Dead. Long Live the King
Chapter 10 Goldwater and Johnson in a Cause Predetermined
Chapter 11 Home Stretch
Chapter 12 Analysis