When America Liked Ike (eBook)

How Moderates Won the 1952 Presidential Election and Reshaped American Politics

Gary A. Donaldson (Autor)

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2016
154 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1177-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, Gary Donaldson argues that the 1952 presidential election, which exposed deep internal divisions on the left and the right, set the stage for the current U.S. political landscape. This book will prove an invaluable resource to readers, students, and scholars interested in rooting out the origins of our contemporary political landscape, on the right and the left.

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The 2016 election cycle put in sharp relief the rifts that divide, and threaten to destroy, the Republican Party. While some claim these divisions originated in Nixon's ';Southern Strategy' or in Newt Gingrich's tenure as Minority Whip, Gary Donaldson argues that the conflict has its origins much earlier, at least as far back as the 1952 presidential election. That election pitted the conservative wing of the Republican Party (the Right Wing, the Old Guard, what is now the Tea Party) against the Republican moderates, represented by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Set against the backdrop of the Korean War and escalating cold war tensions, the 1952 presidential campaign culminated in Eisenhower's landslide victory over Adlai Stevenson. The election exposed deep internal divisions on the left and the right, but especially within the Republican Party. This book will prove an invaluable resource to readers, students, and scholars interested in rooting out the origins of our contemporary political landscape, on the right and the left.

Autor

Gary A. Donaldson (PhD, LSU) is the Keller Foundation Chair in American History at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He is the author of numerous books on American political and diplomatic history, including The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960, Liberalism's Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964, Truman Defeats Dewey, and America at War since 1945. He is currently completing a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Inhalt

IntroductionAbbreviationsChapter 1: “Background to the Age, and the Scramble to Nominate Eisenhower”Chapter 2: Stevenson of IllinoisChapter 3: Eisenhower Decides to RunChapter 4: Truman Decides Not to RunChapter 5: Democrats on the Periphery: Russell and Kefauver and the Democratic Party PrimariesChapter 6: The1952 Campaign as the Beginning of the Future of American PoliticsChapter 7: ConventionsChapter 8: The CampaignElection StatisticsBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Campaigns and Elections
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-1177-6 / 1442211776
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1177-3 / 9781442211773