American Maelstrom : the 1968 election and the politics of division

462 Pages·2016·7.294 MB·English

by  Cohen, Michael A.

AMERICAN MAELSTROM
PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Series Editors
David Hackett Fischer
James M. McPherson
David Greenberg
James T. Patterson Raymond Arsenault
Brown v. Board of Education: Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle
A Civil Rights Milestone and for Racial Justice
Its Troubled Legacy
Colin G. Calloway
Maury Klein The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the
Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929 Transformation of North America
James McPherson Richard Labunski
Crossroads of Freedom: The Battle of James Madison and the Struggle for the
Antietam Bill of Rights
Glenn C. Altschuler Sally G. McMillen
All Shook Up: How Rock ’n’ Roll Seneca Falls and the Origins of the
Changed America Women’s Rights Movement
David Hackett Fischer Howard Jones
Washington’s Crossing The Bay of Pigs
John Ferling Lynn Parsons
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew
Election of 1800 Jackson, John Quincy Adams,
and the Election of 1828
Joel H. Silbey
Storm over Texas: The Annexation Elliott West
Controversy and the Road The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce
to Civil War Story
Glenn C. Altschuler and Richard Moe
Stuart M. Blumin Roosevelt’s Second Act: The Election of
The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans 1940 and the Politics of War
Richard Archer Emerson W. Baker
As If an Enemy’s Country: The British A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials
Occupation of Boston and the Origins of and the American Experience
Revolution
Louis P. Masur
Thomas Kessner Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime
The Flight of the Century: Charles Reconstruction and the Crisis
Lindbergh and the Rise of American of Reunion
Aviation
David L. Preston
Craig L. Symonds Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the
The Battle of Midway Monongahela and the Road to Revolution

MICHAEL A. COHEN
A M E R I C A N
M A E L S T R O M
The 1968 Election and the
Politics of Division
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Cohen, Michael A., 1971– author.
American Maelstrom : The 1968 Election and
the Politics of Division / Michael A. Cohen.
pages cm.—(Pivotal moments in American history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-977756-3
1. Presidents—United States—Election—1968.
2. United States—Politics and government—1963–1969.
3. Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913–1994.
4. Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911–1978. I. Title.
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“Men want to be a part of a common enterprise—a cause greater
than themselves. Each of us must find a way to advance the purpose
of the Nation, thus finding new purpose for ourselves. Without this,
we shall become a nation of strangers.”
—President Lyndon Johnson, Inaugural Address,
January 20, 1965
“It’s never stopped being 1968.”
—An unnamed White House aide in the George W. Bush
administration, April 7, 2004