1st Edition
Liberalism's Last Hurrah The Presidential Campaign of 1964
By Robert H Donaldson
Copyright 2003
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Marked by sharp ideological divisions over civil rights, Vietnam, and federal power, the 1964 presidential campaign between Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Barry Goldwater proved a watershed election in American history. Although Johnson defeated Goldwater in a landslide and liberalism seemed to ride triumphant, the liberal wave crashed almost immediately and conservatives came to dominate... Read more
Introduction 1. Conservatives in the "Modern" World of Eisenhower - and the Rise of Goldwater 2. The Democrats Resurgent and the Rise of the Boston-Austin Axis 3. Goldwater Ambivalence and the Decision to Run 4. Early Republican Battlegrounds and the Rise of George Wallace 5. Lyndon Johnson and the Reins of Power 6. Conservatism Triumphant: Wallace and Goldwater in the Primary Season 7. Guillotine: The Jacobins Remove the Ancient Regime 8. LBJ's "Bobby Problem" and the Humphrey String-along 9. The King Is Dead. Long Live the King 10. Goldwater and Johnson in a Cause Predetermined 11. Home Stretch 12. Analysis Appendix
Biography
Gary Donaldson is professor of history at Xavier University in New Orleans. He also holds the John D. LaFarge Endowed Professorship in Social Justice. During the 1991–92 academic year, and again in 1997–98, he served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in China, teaching twentieth-century American foreign policy and politics at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His books include Truman Defeats Dewey (1998); America at War Since 1945: Foreign Policy and Politics in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War (1996); and Abundance and Anxiety: America, 1945–1960 (1997).
