Liberalism's Last Hurrah
The Presidential Campaign of 1964
Nonfiction, History, World History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Biography & Memoir, Political
| Author: | Gary A. Donaldson | ISBN: | 9781510702370 |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing | Publication: | March 1, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Skyhorse Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gary A. Donaldson |
| ISBN: | 9781510702370 |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Publication: | March 1, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Language: | English |
From the political pundit and author of The Making of Modern America. “The finest single volume I have read about the 1964 election” (Bill Moyers).
The 1964 campaign was a turning point in the nation’s politics and one of the rare elections in American history marked by sharp ideological divisions. Differences over race relations, the Vietnam War, and federal power divided the parties, and racial issues dominated the campaign as candidates clashed over the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Racial factions disrupted the Democratic Convention and George Wallace openly courted white supremacists. The election took place amid national turmoil and great historic events such as Freedom Summer, the murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Seldom had the nation faced a starker choice.
The election proved to be a watershed moment in American political history—but not in the way most contemporaries viewed it. Democrat Lyndon Johnson trounced Republican Barry Goldwater in a huge landslide. To most observers at the time, liberalism rode triumphant and conservatism crumbled, with some even talking of the demise of the Republican Party. But it was not to be, as the liberal wave crashed almost immediately and conservatives came to dominate a resurgent Republican Party in the late twentieth century.
“The prolific Donaldson’s best book yet. *Liberalism’s Last Hurrah *is particularly strong in its emphasis on the roots of the resurgence of conservatism during the last half century.” —David Burner, former professor emeritus of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
“A sharp and penetrating analysis of a movement on the cusp of power.” —Publishers Weekly
From the political pundit and author of The Making of Modern America. “The finest single volume I have read about the 1964 election” (Bill Moyers).
The 1964 campaign was a turning point in the nation’s politics and one of the rare elections in American history marked by sharp ideological divisions. Differences over race relations, the Vietnam War, and federal power divided the parties, and racial issues dominated the campaign as candidates clashed over the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Racial factions disrupted the Democratic Convention and George Wallace openly courted white supremacists. The election took place amid national turmoil and great historic events such as Freedom Summer, the murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Seldom had the nation faced a starker choice.
The election proved to be a watershed moment in American political history—but not in the way most contemporaries viewed it. Democrat Lyndon Johnson trounced Republican Barry Goldwater in a huge landslide. To most observers at the time, liberalism rode triumphant and conservatism crumbled, with some even talking of the demise of the Republican Party. But it was not to be, as the liberal wave crashed almost immediately and conservatives came to dominate a resurgent Republican Party in the late twentieth century.
“The prolific Donaldson’s best book yet. *Liberalism’s Last Hurrah *is particularly strong in its emphasis on the roots of the resurgence of conservatism during the last half century.” —David Burner, former professor emeritus of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
“A sharp and penetrating analysis of a movement on the cusp of power.” —Publishers Weekly
