Author: Alice V. McGillivrayPublisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books
ISBN: 9781568020594
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 919
Book Description
America at the Polls: Kennedy to Clinton, 1960-1992
Author: Alice V. McGillivrayPublisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books
ISBN: 9781568020594
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 919
Book Description
America at the Polls: Kennedy to Clinton, 1960-1992
Author: The Real Making of the President
Author: W. J. RorabaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this election to explain the operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, 'The Making of the President'.
Kennedy v. Nixon
Author: Edmund F. Kallina Jr.Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813042933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Kennedy v. Nixon is a book for everyone who thinks they know what happened in the pivotal election year of 1960. For fifty years we've accepted Theodore White's premise (from The Making of the President, 1960) that Kennedy ran a brilliant campaign while Nixon committed blunder after blunder. But White the journalist was a Kennedy partisan and helped establish the myth of Camelot. Now, five decades later, Edmund Kallina offers a fresh overview of the election's most critical and controversial events. Based upon research conducted at four presidential libraries--those of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon--Kallina is able to make observations and share insights unavailable in the immediate aftermath of one of the closest races in American presidential history. He describes the strengths and mistakes of both camps, and examines the impact of civil rights, Cold War tensions, and the televised presidential debates on an election that still looms large in both the political history and the popular imagination of the United States.
America at the Polls, 1960-2004, John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
Author: America at the Polls
Author: Alice V. McGillivrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781568023229
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy
Author: Andrew JohnstonePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813169062
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
While domestic issues loom large in voters' minds during American presidential elections, matters of foreign policy have consistently shaped candidates and their campaigns. From the start of World War II through the collapse of the Soviet Union, presidential hopefuls needed to be perceived as credible global leaders in order to win elections -- regardless of the situation at home -- and voter behavior depended heavily on whether the nation was at war or peace. Yet there is little written about the importance of foreign policy in US presidential elections or the impact of electoral issues on the formation of foreign policy. In US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy, a team of international scholars examines how the relationship between foreign policy and electoral politics evolved through the latter half of the twentieth century. Covering all presidential elections from 1940 to 1992 -- from debates over American entry into World War II to the aftermath of the Cold War -- the contributors correct the conventional wisdom that domestic issues and the economy are always definitive. Together they demonstrate that, while international concerns were more important in some campaigns than others, foreign policy always matters and is often decisive. This illuminating commentary fills a significant gap in the literature on presidential and electoral politics, emphasizing that candidates' positions on global issues have a palpable impact on American foreign policy.
The Vanishing Voter
Author: Thomas E. PattersonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307548678
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote. Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voter investigates why—despite a better educated citizenry, the end of racial barriers to voting, and simplified voter registration procedures—the percentage of voters has steadily decreased to the point that the United States now has nearly the lowest voting rate in the world. Patterson cites the blurring of differences between the political parties, the news media’s negative bias, and flaws in the election system to explain this disturbing trend while suggesting specific reforms intended to bring Americans back to the polls. Astute, far-reaching, and impeccably researched, The Vanishing Voter engages the very meaning of our relationship to our government.
The Election of 1960 and the Administration of John F. Kennedy
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590843611
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A discussion of the presidential election of 1960 and the subsequent administration of John F. Kennedy, based on source documents.
Predicting the Next President
Author: Allan J. LichtmanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In the days after Donald Trump’s unexpected victory on election night 2016, The New York Times, CNN, and other leading media outlets reached out to one of the few pundits who had correctly predicted the outcome, Allan J. Lichtman. While many election forecasters base their findings exclusively on public opinion polls, Lichtman looks at the underlying fundamentals that have driven every presidential election since 1860. Using his 13 historical factors or “keys” (four political, seven performance, and two personality), Lichtman had been predicting Trump’s win since September 2016. In the updated 2024 edition, he applies the keys to every presidential election since 1860 and shows readers the current state of the 2024 race. In doing so, he dispels much of the mystery behind electoral politics and challenges many traditional assumptions. An indispensable resource for political junkies!