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Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era.
* Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American politics in the last half century has been the ‘rise of the Right’
* Considers the achievements and frustrations of each administration, from Nixon to Obama, in its assessment of contemporary U.S. politics
* Features authorship by an expert scholar in the field who takes a thematic rather than a partisan approach to recent American politics
* Offers a concise, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date synthesis of the literature in the field and concludes with a comprehensive bibliographical essay, an aid to student research
* Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American politics in the last half century has been the ‘rise of the Right’
* Considers the achievements and frustrations of each administration, from Nixon to Obama, in its assessment of contemporary U.S. politics
* Features authorship by an expert scholar in the field who takes a thematic rather than a partisan approach to recent American politics
* Offers a concise, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date synthesis of the literature in the field and concludes with a comprehensive bibliographical essay, an aid to student research
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Table of Content
List of Illustrations viiPreface ix
Introduction: 1968–The End of an Era 1
1 The Politics of Cynicism, 1968-1974 5
The Shaping of a New Majority 7
Conservatism as Reform 16
The Politics of War and Détente 19
Watergate and Its Aftermath 30
2 The Futility of Moderation, 1974-1976 43
The Politics of Forgiveness 44
President as Political Prisoner 48
Détente Derailed 53
3 Dashed Hopes, 1976-1980 60
Fractured Majority 61
Threading the Needle 73
The Abandonment of Idealism 78
4 Dogma and (More) Disappointment, 1980-1988 89
The Rise of the Right 90
Reaganomics 96
Culture Wars and Party Politics 107
Reagan’s World 117
5 Squandering the Inheritance, 1988-1992 136
Succession by Hardball 137
The Bills Come Due 144
New World (Dis)Order 153
6 The Deepening Divide, 1992-2000 171
The Illusion of Liberal Revival 172
The Politics of Triangulation 187
Quest for a Post -Cold War Foreign Policy 200
Crises of the Clinton Presidency 212
7 The Politics of Polarization, 2000-2008 221
Ultimate Deadlock: Bush v. Gore 222
The Politics of Anti -terrorism 233
Imagined Mandate 248
The Politics of Certitude 262
8 The Politics of Red and Blue, since 2008 277
The Politics of Hope 279
Government by Dysfunction 296
The Politics of Trench Warfare 315
Conclusion: Deadlock and Disillusionment 328
Bibliographical Essay 335
Index 355
About the author
Gary W. Reichard is Provost / Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. In addition to teaching post-World War II United States history at the college level, Reichard has taught the history of American political parties and the history of American immigration and ethnicity. He is the author of The Reaffirmation of Republicanism: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Eighty-third Congress and Politics as Usual: The Age of Truman and Eisenhower (2nd Ed.), and is a former member of the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 384 ● ISBN 9781118934371 ● File size 4.7 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2016 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4835098 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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