1st Edition
Liberalism's Last Hurrah The Presidential Campaign of 1964
Marked by sharp ideological divisions over civil rights, Vietnam, and federal power, the 1964 presidential campaign between Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Barry Goldwater proved a watershed election in American history. Although Johnson defeated Goldwater in a landslide and liberalism seemed to ride triumphant, the liberal wave crashed almost immediately and conservatives came to dominate a resurgent Republican Party in the late twentieth century. Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, this is the first historical account of this crucial election, and the transition it marked for the nation. Filled with colorful details and fascinating figures - Johnson, Goldwater, Wallace, Rockefeller, Nixon, Reagan, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Bush, and many more - it captures the full excitement, drama, and significance of "liberalism's last hurrah."
Biography
Gary Donaldson is professor of history at Xavier University in New Orleans. He also holds the John D. LaFarge Endowed Professorship in Social Justice. During the 1991–92 academic year, and again in 1997–98, he served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in China, teaching twentieth-century American foreign policy and politics at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His books include Truman Defeats Dewey (1998); America at War Since 1945: Foreign Policy and Politics in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War (1996); and Abundance and Anxiety: America, 1945–1960 (1997).
