Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: Lbj, Barry Goldwater, and the AD That Changed American Politics

by Robert T. Mann

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The grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man's solemn countdown replaces hers. At zero the little girl's eye is engulfed by an atomic mushroom cloud. As the inferno roils in the background, President Lyndon B. Johnson's voice intones, These are the stakes -- to make a world in which all...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080714293X

ISBN13:9780807142936

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Related Subjects

20th Century Elections Elections & Political Process Executive Branch History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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