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Resilient America

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Resilient America

By Michael Nelson

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About the book

To look at the partisan polarisation that paralyses Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race - all pointed to a reordering of party coalitions, of groups and regions, a hardening and widening of an ideological divide - and to the historical importance of the 1968 election as a watershed eve...Show more

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9780700619634

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published year

2014

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1

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Resilient America

Format

Hardcover

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