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020			_a156663010X (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a1566630096 (cloth : alk. paper) :
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082	0	0	_a324.9730923 _220 _bG.L.E.
100	1		_aGould, Lewis L. _93670 _eauthor.
245	1	0	_a1968 : _bthe election that changed America / _cLewis L. Gould.
264		1	_aChicago : _bIvan R. Dee, _c[1993]
300			_aix, 178 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
490	0		_aThe American ways series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [170]-172) and index.
505	0		_a1. On the Eve of 1968. The war in Vietnam. Race relations, crime, and law and order. The disarray of the Democrats. Resurgent Republicans -- 2. The President Withdraws. Johnson's political plans. The Tet offensive. Eugene McCarthy and Richard Nixon in New Hampshire. Robert Kennedy enters the race. The "Wise Men" and Vietnam. Johnson pulls out -- 3. The Violent Spring. The death of Martin Luther King, Jr. The race issue. George C. Wallace and his appeal. Nixon leads Rockefeller. Humphrey and the "politics of joy." McCarthy vs. Kennedy. The California primary and Robert Kennedy's death -- 4. Nixon's the One. The Humphrey campaign and its problems. The nomination of Abe Fortas. Humphrey, Johnson, and Vietnam. Nixon and the Republican convention. The Reagan challenge. The selection of Spiro Agnew -- 5. Democratic Disaster at Chicago. Humphrey, the convention, and the war. The Johnson influence on the Democratic convention. The Edward Kennedy boomlet. New rules for the party. Protests in the streets. Humphrey and Muskie selected. Police and protesters clash and the public reacts -- 6. October Surprises. Humphrey's campaign revives. The Salt Lake City speech. Wallace fading. Nixon and the overconfident Republicans. The Johnson peace initiative. Nixon and South Vietnam. The Humphrey surge and Nixon's response. The election results and their meaning.
520			_aThe race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American poitics. In this compact and evenhanded narrative analysis, Lewis Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their 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 the 1970s and 1980s. 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 this lucid account Mr. Gould considers the surprising decision of Lyndon Johnson not to seek renomination for the presidency; the phenomena of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy; the campaigns of Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and the third-party candidate George Wallace; the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy; the disastrous Democratic convention in Chicago; and the extraordinary events of what Eugene McCarthy later called the "Hard Year." it was, Mr. Gould observes, "a time of recurrent shocks, intense emotions, and passionate Judgments. During a troubled time, fallible men and women made decisions that changed the nation." Mr. Gould offers deft portraits of the major players' and a balanced analysis of the campaigns, their strategies, and their results. He describes how Nixon and the Republicans discovered the so-called wedge issues that would later serve Ronald Reagan and George Bush so well in their presidential campaigns. And, based on fresh research, he fills in the details of Nixon's efforts to prevent the October surprise of a major peace initiative in Vietnam by President Johnson. Mr. Gould has written a calm and judicious history of a crucial moment in the nation's political history.
650		0	_aPresidents _zUnited States _xElection _y1968.
650		0	_aElections _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1963-1969. _93673
740	0		_aNineteen sixty eight.
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