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Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
1400041058
EAN
9781400041053
Date of Publication
2004-03-01
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Type
Hardback
Release Title
Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism
Artist
Sandbrook, Dominic
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400041058
ISBN-13
9781400041053
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6033602

Product Key Features

Book Title
Eugene Mccarthy : the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, General, Political, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Dominic Sandbrook
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in

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Trade
LCCN
2003-026097
Reviews
"An interesting book, handsomely written, and closely researched." The Weekly Standard "Massively researched. . . . Sandbrook is effective in conveying the sense of a wasted talent." The Nation "Dominic Sandbrook's subtle, intelligent portrait gives us Gene McCarthy in all his enigmatic brilliance. . . . At a time when so much political history comes to us as scandal and gossip, this absorbing book reminds us where the drama of politics really beginsin the tensions between idealism and compromise, intellect and passion, knowledge and delusion." Sam Tanenhaus, author ofWhittaker Chambers "McCarthy has lacked a full-scale biography; now, thanks to a young British historian, Dominic Sandbrook, he has a very good one. . . . Sandbrook brings both McCarthy and American liberalism alive. . . . A stunning achievement." History Book Club Review(Editors' choice) "Highly readable. . . . Captures all of the drama and historical significance of both McCarthy the man and the political era that he helped define." Tucson Citizen "A consummate political biography. Dominic Sandbrook insightfully probes Eugene McCarthy's complex role in the decay of American liberalism. Avoiding nostalgia, he writes with an incisive and compelling honesty. . . . A sobering story in vivid prose, rich in nuance." Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofWilliam Cooper's Town "Sandbrook's biography will command attention and spark discussion about this controversial career and McCarthy's role in the end of the New Deal liberal consensus." Publishers Weekly "Illuminating. . . . Sandbrook is especially good at describing how McCarthy's Catholicism formed his political visionÉ. Scholarly, scrupulously researched." Library Journal "This incisive account of the career both of postwar liberalism and of one of its most romantic standard-bearers reads like the anatomy of a lost cause -lost thanks not only to ideological choices but to the all-too-human attributes of arrogance, self-absorption and spite. An invaluable book for liberals who want to understand how they got where they are." James Traub, contributing writer forThe New York Times Magazine From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
0
Dewey Decimal
973.924/092 B
Synopsis
Eugene McCarthy was one of the most fascinating political figures of the postwar era: a committed liberal anti-Communist who broke with his party's leadership over Vietnam and ultimately helped take down the political giant Lyndon B. Johnson. His presidential candidacy in 1968 seized the hearts and fired the imaginations of countless young liberals; it also presaged the declining fortunes of liberalism and the rise of conservatism over the past three decades. 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. These were tumultuous times in American politics, and Sandbrook vividly captures the drama and historical significance of the period through his intimate portrait of a singularly interesting man at the center of it all. From the Hardcover edition.
LC Classification Number
E840.8.M3S25 2004

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