Description: 1968 : The Election That Changed America, Paperback by Gould, Lewis L., ISBN 1566638623, ISBN-13 9781566638623, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they brought to Richard Nixon's campaign to create a generation-long ascendancy in presidential politics; and how Democrats, divided and torn after 1968, emerged as only crippled challengers for the White House throughout most of the years until the early twenty-first century. Bitterness over racial issues and the Vietnam War that marked the 1968 election continued to shape national affairs and to rile American society for years afterward. And the election accelerated an erosion of confidence in American institutions that has not yet reached a conclusion. In his lucid account, Mr. Gould emphasizes the importance of race as the campaign's key issue and examines the now infamous "October surprises" of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon as he describes the extraordinary events of what Eugene McCarthy later called the "Hard Year." "Succinct yet remarkably thorough."ùJournal of Southern History
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Edition: 2
Book Title: 1968 : the Election That Changed America
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, United States / 20th Century, General, United States / 21st Century
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 7.9 Oz
Author: Lewis L. Gould
Item Length: 8.4 in
Book Series: American Ways Ser.
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
