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Dominic Sandbrook

Eugene McCarthy

The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism

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Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist, Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democratic party over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire primary inspired young liberals and was one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history. But the 1968 election ultimately brought Richard Nixon and the Republican Party to power, irrevocably shifting the country's political landscape to the right for decades to come. Dominic Sandbrook traces one of the most remarkable and significant lives in postwar politics, a career marked by both courage and arrogance. Sandbrook draws on e… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4000-7790-8
  • EAN: 9781400077908
  • Produktnummer: 21912350
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 432 S.

Über den Autor


Born in Shropshire in 1974, Dominic Sandbrook studied history and modern languages at Oxford University. He has a master's degree from the University of St. Andrews and a doctorate from Cambridge University. He taught American history at the University of Sheffield from 2001 to 2004, and has held a Senior Fellowship at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. He is the author of Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles, and lives in London.

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