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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sandbrook, Dominic. Eugene McCarthy. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 (OCoLC)607060241 Online version: Sandbrook, Dominic. Eugene McCarthy. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 (OCoLC)632043158 |
| Named Person: | Eugene J McCarthy |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dominic Sandbrook |
| ISBN: | 1400041058 9781400041053 |
| OCLC Number: | 53831429 |
| Description: | xiii, 397 p., [8] plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue -- ch. 1. The Watkins wonder -- ch. 2. The education of a Catholic politician -- ch. 3. The new liberalism and the 1948 election -- ch. 4. The quiet congressman -- ch. 5. Patronage and principle in the Eisenhower Era -- ch. 6. The politics of ambition -- ch. 7. Rethinking the Cold War -- ch. 8. The limits of power -- ch. 9. A footnote in history : New Hampshire, 1968 -- ch. 10. The road to Chicago -- ch. 11. The aftermath of defeat -- ch. 12. The long exile -- Epilogue : The liberal's progress -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
| Responsibility: | Dominic Sandbrook. |
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Abstract:
"Dominic Sandbrook traces Eugene McCarthy's rise to prominence and his subsequent failures, and makes clear how his story embodies the larger history of American liberalism over the last half century. We see McCarthy elected from Minnesota to the House and then to the Senate, part of a new liberal movement that combined New Deal domestic policies and fierce Cold War hawkishness, a consensus that produced huge electoral victories until it was shattered by the war in Vietnam." "As the situation in Vietnam escalated, many liberals, like McCarthy, found themselves increasingly estranged from the anti-Communism that they had supported for nearly two decades. Sandbrook recounts McCarthy's growing opposition to President Johnson and his policies, which culminated in McCarthy's stunning near-victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary and Johnson's subsequent withdrawal from the race. McCarthy went on to lose the nomination to Hubert Humphrey at the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which secured his downfall and led to Richard Nixon's election, but he had pulled off one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history, one that helped shape the political landscape for decades."--Jacket.
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