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The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party
Bruce Miroff
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Description for The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party
Hardcover. When George McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon's landslide victory buried more than an insurgent campaign. By tracing the transformation of American liberalism and sixties idealism from their political crash in 1972 to muddled centrism of twenty-first century, this book shows what the McGovern insurgency has to teach us. Num Pages: 336 pages, 21 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JPF; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
When George McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon's landslide victory buried more than an insurgent campaign. In resurrecting the largely forgotten story of McGovern's remarkable presidential bid, Bruce Miroff reveals how his crushing defeat produced an identity crisis for liberals torn between their convictions and the political calculations required to win elections - a dilemma for Democrats that has never gone away. Miroff follows the campaign from its surprising rise to its catastrophic fall to remind us how a dark-horse candidate captured the nomination - and then disastrously chose a running mate with a hidden past. Drawing on ... Read more
When George McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon's landslide victory buried more than an insurgent campaign. In resurrecting the largely forgotten story of McGovern's remarkable presidential bid, Bruce Miroff reveals how his crushing defeat produced an identity crisis for liberals torn between their convictions and the political calculations required to win elections - a dilemma for Democrats that has never gone away. Miroff follows the campaign from its surprising rise to its catastrophic fall to remind us how a dark-horse candidate captured the nomination - and then disastrously chose a running mate with a hidden past. Drawing on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615469
SKU
V9780700615469
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About Bruce Miroff
Bruce Miroff is professor of political science and Collins Fellow at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Icons of Democracy: American Leaders as Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, and Democrats (also from Kansas) and the coauthor of The Democratic Debate: An Introduction to American Politics, now in its fourth edition.
Reviews for The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party
A deeply perceptive and stunningly fresh narrative of a major turning point in U.S. political history. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand both the promise and the pitfalls awaiting Democrats who stand up for their principles. Michael Kazin, author of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan ""Brings to life the excitement and furor of a ... Read more