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Two suns of the Southwest : Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 battle between liberalism and conservatism

Title

Two suns of the Southwest : Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 battle between liberalism and conservatism / Nancy Beck Young.

Author

Young, Nancy Beck

Publication

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
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Description

xiii, 289 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Two Suns of the Southwest: Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle Between Liberalism and Conservatism explores the 1964 presidential election and its legacy for modern American politics. The contest was simultaneously a showdown between liberalism and conservatism and between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater. Two more unlikely messengers could not be envisioned. Johnson's liberalism was suspect among east coast liberals while Goldwater's conservatism was far to the right of what had been normal in previous decades. Both suns of the Old West, they advocated distinctly different versions of what the southwest and thus the country could be if it but orbited their worldview. One looked nostalgically backward and the other boldly forward. The election of 1964 has in the decades since come to be seen as a definitional contest whereby Americans deliberated between two distinctly different visions for the future. To provide an additional twist, the losing candidate's vision has become much more central to American politics while the winning candidate's vision has grown stale"--

Series Statement

American presidential elections

Uniform Title

American presidential elections.

Alternative Title

2 suns of the Southwest

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. The Myth of Republican Moderation in the 1950s -- 2. A New Frontier for the Democratic Party? -- 3. A Republican Civil War Begins -- 4. Pyrrhic Triumph or Extremist Victory? -- 5. "That was Lyndon Baines Johnson!" -- 6. Backlash, Frontlash, Smearlash -- 7. "Government is not an Enemy of the People. It is the People" -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Republican Primary Results -- Appendix B: Democratic Primary Results -- Appendix C: General Election Results, Popular Vote Totals 1964 -- Appendix D: General Election Results, Electoral College Totals 1964 -- Appendix E: Lyndon B. Johnson's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1965.

Call Number

JFE 19-4631

ISBN

9780700627950
0700627952

LCCN

2018059049
40029229052

OCLC

1066121396

Author

Young, Nancy Beck, author.

Title

Two suns of the Southwest : Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 battle between liberalism and conservatism / Nancy Beck Young.

Publisher

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American presidential elections

American presidential elections.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Standard Identifier

40029229052

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4631

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