Resilient America
：Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government
Publication subTitle ：Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government
Author： Nelson > Michael
Publisher： University Press of Kansas
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9780700620340
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700619634
Subject： D034 State institutions;D52 世界政治制度与国家机构;K7 Americas History
Keyword： 政治、法律,政治理论,美洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
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 of the 1968 election as a watershed event.
Resilient America captures this extraordinary time in all its drama—
the personalities, the politics, the parties, the events and the circumstances, from the shadow of 1964 through the primaries to the general election that pitted Richard Nixon against Hubert Humphrey, with George Wallace and Eugene McCarthy as the interlopers. Where most accounts of this pivotal year—and the decade that followed—emphasize the coming apart of the nation, this book focuses on the fact that because of measures taken after the election the country actually held together. An esteemed scholar of the American presidency, Michael Nelson turns our attention to how, in spite of increasing (and increasingly vehement) differences, the parties of the time managed to make divided government work. Conventional political processes—peaceful demonstrations, congressional legislation, executive initiatives, Supreme Court decisions, party reforms, and president
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