Playing with fire: the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics 9780399563157, 9780399563140, 0399563148
The celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell presents an account of the 1968 president
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English Pages 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Year 2017
Table of 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 the people in exile" --
The perfect crime --
Epilogue.
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 the people in exile" --
The perfect crime --
Epilogue.
