The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
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Thomas B. Weyant, H-Net well-written and highly readable narratives ... thorough in their presentation and offer compelling narratives that a general audience will enjoy and details that will help provide the foundations for scholars to launch into deeper analyses about the sixties, presidential politics, and a host of other fields of inquiry.
Michael Kazin, co-editor of Dissent and author of American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation The election of 1968 was one of the most pivotal in American history. With vivid detail and unfailing political wisdom, Michael Cohen explains how that tumultuous contest occurred and why its tremors have continued to shake the nation.
Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Hieress, The Oath, and The Nine Written like a fast-paced, if far-fetched, political thriller, Michael Cohen's American Maelstrom combines scholarly rigor with narrative drive. Vivid portraits of the protagonists highlight this extraordinary saga that seems at once long ago but also as current as today's Web headlines.
Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, and The Opposition The furies unleashed in 1968 are still churning. Michael Cohen does a fine job keeping his head in the maelstrom of the last century, explaining how the meanest impulses of American life found their champions and carried us so far into barbarism.
Stuart Stevens, senior strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign A big, important book about a big, important moment in American history. Taking readers on a fascinating journey through 1968, Cohen revels the forces that shaped the country's politics and culture. Some history, even the best written, can sit on the shelf waiting for that perfect moment to be read. American Maelstrom demands to be read now. I can't imagine a better-timed book.
Fredrik Logevall, Professor of International Affairs and History, Harvard University A fluid and penetrating account of that most extraordinary of postwar American election years. Like no one before him, Cohen offers a vivid, powerful collective portrait of the key personalities of 1968, and we see in sharp relief why they acted as they did-and why one result was the "politics of division" we live with today.
The American Prospect
Vivid and compelling... [Cohen] masterfully links the historical antecedents of that momentous election year to the immense and durable political transformation that followed.
Tulsa World
In American Maelstrom, Michael Cohen... provides substantial support for the widely held view that the presidential election was a pivotal moment in American politics... Embedded in Cohen's vivid narrative are smart, sharply-etched portraits of President Lyndon Johnson and the eight men - Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney and Ronald Reagan - who had caught the presidential virus.
Choice Reviews Cohen's ca...
Michael A. Cohen is a national political columnist for The Boston Globe. He writes regularly on American politics and U.S. foreign policy and has previously been a columnist for the Guardian and Foreign Policy. He is the author of Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Contents Editor's Note Introduction PART I: Before Chapter 1: Backlash Chapter 2: Losing the Middle Ground PART II: The Democrats Chapter 3. "A Quiet, Witty Man of Grey Presence" Chapter 4. The (Un)happy Warrior Chapter 5: "The Most Misunderstood Man in American Politics" Chapter 6. "...Out Like A Lion" Chapter 7: "The Evangelist vs. the Philosopher" Chapter 8: "The Politics of Joy?" PART III: The Republicans Chapter 9: The Cipher Chapter 10: The Short-Lived George Romney Boomlet Chapter 11: The "Doer" and. the "Rising Star of the West" PART IV: Wallace Chapter 12: The Demagogue PART V: A Tale of Two Conventions Chapter 13: A "Plastic Paradise" Chapter 14: "A City That Works" PART VI: The General Election Chapter 15: What Goes Up Must Come Down; What Goes Down Must Come Up Chapter 16: The Final Storm PART VII: After Chapter 17: Post-Mortem Chapter 18: The Legacy of 1968 Acknowledgements Bibliographic Essay