[This book] treats the decade and a half after World War II as a discrete historical era, the end of which represents a watershed in the political life of the nation. Despite the pressures created by the Cold War and the challenges posed by developing nations, American politics …
This text treats the decade after World War II as a discrete historical era, the end of which represents a watershed in the political life of the nation. Despite the pressures created by the Cold War and the challenges posed by developing nations, American politics from 1945 to …
Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968" is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era. It rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping…
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: 1968-The End of an Era -- Chapter 1 The Politics of Cynicism, 1968-1974 -- The Shaping of a New Majority -- Conservatism as Reform -- The Politics of War and Détente -- Watergate and It…
Polarization, divisiveness, and dysfunction are defining features of early twenty-first-century American politics. With no apparent end in sight, we well might ask: How did we get here? In Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics since 1968, Gary Reichard explores the pol…
Polarization, divisiveness, and dysfunction are defining features of early twenty-first-century American politics. With no apparent and in sight, we well might ask: How did we get here? In Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics since 1968, Gary Reichard explores the pol…
Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era.-Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping rec…