The Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, 1972
Author : Sheila Hixson
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Democratic National Convention
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Author : Sheila Hixson
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Democratic National Convention
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : Robert O. Self
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0809095025
This text is a synthetic history of the last half of the American century. Self shows how movements on the liberal left that demanded equal rights and greater government protection inadvertently elicited conservative activism that sought to restore the nuclear family under the rubric of 'family values'.
Author : Carl Solberg
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873514736
The most authoritative biography of the consummate liberal politician of the second half of the twentieth century.
Author : Mark Stricherz
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 159403205X
Stricherz argues that secular, educated elites, using a commission created at the 1968 convention in Chicago, took the Democratic Party away from working class and religious Democrats. This quiet revolution helps explain why six of the last nine Democratic presidential candidates have lost.
Author : Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 1976
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Page : 812 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786737786
Joe Califano grew up in a tight-knit working class family in Depression-era Brooklyn. His parents instilled in their son a work ethic, sense of self, and devotion to Church that stayed with him as he rose through the ranks of America's ruling class. From Jesuit undergraduate schools to Harvard Law, influential law firms, Robert McNamara's Pentagon, Lyndon Johnson's White House, and Jimmy Carter's Cabinet, Califano was hard charging, effective, and committed to his causes—whether that meant reforming the military, working for equal rights for all, his struggle to be a committed Catholic in America, or finally his passion to combat addictions that ruin so many American lives. The book is called Inside, and that's where it takes us—inside his public and private life—as Califano worked in the power centers of three Democratic administrations. He shows us how hardball is often necessary to make government serve its people. Califano remained "inside" even out of government, representing the Washington Post and Democratic Party during Watergate. Inside is history, memoir, and a profoundly revealing personal drama of a powerful figure involved in many defining events of the last half century. It is a tale of how ambition, tenacity and courage, guided by deeply felt ethics, can move the world, from the inside.
Author : James T. Havel
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
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Author : Kathryn J. McGarr
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1586488775
"Robert S. Strauss was for many decades, the quintessential political operator. He played a pivotal role in US politics for more than fifty years, serving as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, US Trade Representative, and US Ambassador to the USSR and later Russia. He has advised and represented many US presidents for both major political parties. Yet, we know very little of this man who has been so influential behind the scenes. This is the story of how Bobby Strauss, a poor, Jewish boy from West Texas, became Robert S. Strauss, a lawyer and politician of national and international renown. Strauss entered national politics when Beltway outsiders were planning their takeover of the Democratic Party in the aftermath of the divisive 1968 Chicago convention. After the 1972 nomination and subsequent defeat of George McGovern polarized the old and new factions of the Democratic Party, Strauss became chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He managed to create a coalition of old guard conservatives, minorities, youth, and representatives of both labor and big business that resembled the patchwork Democratic Party we still have to this day. Strauss excelled at balancing accommodation and persuasion. He was proud to be an insider and a politician, even when those were considered dirty words, because he enjoyed the negotiations that politics then entailed. His Texas charm and political savvy won over both sides of the aisle in Washington. This book will describe what went on in the smoke-filled rooms, and in the bathrooms of the hotel suites, "where the real decisions were made, " as Strauss likes to say. It is a vivid portrait of a bygone era of civilized Washington politics, when Republicans and Democrats worked together without fear of criticism. "--