Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government
(Part of the American Presidential Elections Series, American Presidential Elections Series, and American Presidential Elections Series)
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To look at the partisan polarization that paralyzes Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race--all pointed to a reordering of party coalitions, of groups and regions, a hardening and widening of an ideological divide--and to the historical importance...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0700619631
ISBN13:9780700619634
Release Date:March 2014
Publisher:University Press of Kansas
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.54 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
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