The Resource Playing with fire : the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Lawrence O'Donnell
Playing with fire : the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Lawrence O'Donnell
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- Summary
- "The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America's shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself, but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different, and how we got to where we are now. Playing With Fire represents O'Donnell's master class in American electioneering, embedded in the epic human drama of a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams in real time. Nothing went according to the script. LBJ was confident he'd dispatch Nixon, the GOP frontrunner; Johnson's greatest fear and real nemesis was RFK. But Kennedy and his team, despite their loathing of the president, weren't prepared to challenge their own party's incumbent. Then, out of nowhere, Eugene McCarthy shocked everyone with his disloyalty and threw his hat in the ring to run against the president and the Vietnam War. A revolution seemed to be taking place, and LBJ, humiliated and bitter, began to look mortal. Then RFK leapt in, LBJ dropped out, and all hell broke loose. Two assassinations and a week of bloody riots in Chicago around the Democratic Convention later, and the old Democratic Party was a smoldering ruin, and, in the last triumph of old machine politics, Hubert Humphrey stood alone in the wreckage. Suddenly Nixon was in the lead, having masterfully maintained a smooth façade behind which he feverishly held his party's right and left wings in the fold, through a succession of ruthless maneuvers to see off George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and the great outside threat to his new Southern Strategy, the arch-segregationist George Wallace. But then, amazingly, Humphrey began to close, and so, in late October, Nixon pulled off one of the greatest dirty tricks in American political history, an act that may well meet the statutory definition of treason. The tone was set for Watergate and all else that was to follow, all the way through to today."--Dust jacket flaps
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Seizing the moment
- Declaring war
- "Why isn't he a priest?"
- Sleepy Hollow
- "A hard and harsh moral judgment"
- Dump Johnson
- The general
- "We will never be young again"
- Old politics
- "A decent interval"
- Peace with honor
- Peter the hermit
- "Clean for Gene"
- The new Nixon
- "Nixon's the one"
- "Abigail said no"
- The poor people's campaign
- "Something bad is going to come of this"
- "Stand up and be counted"
- "It's not important what happens to me"
- "I've seen the promised land"
- The happy warrior
- Don't lose
- "Everything's going to be okay"
- Stop Nixon
- "Great television"
- The last liberal standing
- The peace plank
- "The whole world's watching"
- "The government of people in exile"
- The perfect crime
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780399563140
- Label
- Playing with fire : the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics
- Title
- Playing with fire
- Title remainder
- the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics
- Statement of responsibility
- Lawrence O'Donnell
- Title variation
- Playing with fire
- Title variation remainder
- the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics
- Subject
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- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- trueMass media
- Mass media -- Political aspects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
- truePolitical campaigns
- Politics and government
- truePresidential candidates
- truePresidential election, 1968
- Presidents -- Election
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1968
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
- truePolitical parties
- 1963-1969
- trueAssassination
- trueElections
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America's shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself, but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different, and how we got to where we are now. Playing With Fire represents O'Donnell's master class in American electioneering, embedded in the epic human drama of a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams in real time. Nothing went according to the script. LBJ was confident he'd dispatch Nixon, the GOP frontrunner; Johnson's greatest fear and real nemesis was RFK. But Kennedy and his team, despite their loathing of the president, weren't prepared to challenge their own party's incumbent. Then, out of nowhere, Eugene McCarthy shocked everyone with his disloyalty and threw his hat in the ring to run against the president and the Vietnam War. A revolution seemed to be taking place, and LBJ, humiliated and bitter, began to look mortal. Then RFK leapt in, LBJ dropped out, and all hell broke loose. Two assassinations and a week of bloody riots in Chicago around the Democratic Convention later, and the old Democratic Party was a smoldering ruin, and, in the last triumph of old machine politics, Hubert Humphrey stood alone in the wreckage. Suddenly Nixon was in the lead, having masterfully maintained a smooth façade behind which he feverishly held his party's right and left wings in the fold, through a succession of ruthless maneuvers to see off George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and the great outside threat to his new Southern Strategy, the arch-segregationist George Wallace. But then, amazingly, Humphrey began to close, and so, in late October, Nixon pulled off one of the greatest dirty tricks in American political history, an act that may well meet the statutory definition of treason. The tone was set for Watergate and all else that was to follow, all the way through to today."--Dust jacket flaps
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- 10600571
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- 1951-
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- O'Donnell, Lawrence
- Dewey number
- 324.973/0904
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E851
- LC item number
- .O33 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Presidents
- Politics and government
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- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
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- United States
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- the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics
- Label
- Playing with fire : the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Lawrence O'Donnell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-470) and index
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- Contents
- Seizing the moment -- Declaring war -- "Why isn't he a priest?" -- Sleepy Hollow -- "A hard and harsh moral judgment" -- Dump Johnson -- The general -- "We will never be young again" -- Old politics -- "A decent interval" -- Peace with honor -- Peter the hermit -- "Clean for Gene" -- The new Nixon -- "Nixon's the one" -- "Abigail said no" -- The poor people's campaign -- "Something bad is going to come of this" -- "Stand up and be counted" -- "It's not important what happens to me" -- "I've seen the promised land" -- The happy warrior -- Don't lose -- "Everything's going to be okay" -- Stop Nixon -- "Great television" -- The last liberal standing -- The peace plank -- "The whole world's watching" -- "The government of people in exile" -- The perfect crime -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 1888748
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780399563140
- Lccn
- 2017031414
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780399563140
- (OCoLC)973087457
- Label
- Playing with fire : the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Lawrence O'Donnell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-470) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Seizing the moment -- Declaring war -- "Why isn't he a priest?" -- Sleepy Hollow -- "A hard and harsh moral judgment" -- Dump Johnson -- The general -- "We will never be young again" -- Old politics -- "A decent interval" -- Peace with honor -- Peter the hermit -- "Clean for Gene" -- The new Nixon -- "Nixon's the one" -- "Abigail said no" -- The poor people's campaign -- "Something bad is going to come of this" -- "Stand up and be counted" -- "It's not important what happens to me" -- "I've seen the promised land" -- The happy warrior -- Don't lose -- "Everything's going to be okay" -- Stop Nixon -- "Great television" -- The last liberal standing -- The peace plank -- "The whole world's watching" -- "The government of people in exile" -- The perfect crime -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 1888748
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780399563140
- Lccn
- 2017031414
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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- (Sirsi) i9780399563140
- (OCoLC)973087457
Subject
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- trueMass media
- Mass media -- Political aspects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
- truePolitical campaigns
- Politics and government
- truePresidential candidates
- truePresidential election, 1968
- Presidents -- Election
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1968
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
- truePolitical parties
- 1963-1969
- trueAssassination
- trueElections
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