Pivotal Tuesdays : : Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century / / Margaret O'Mara.

Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 30 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author’s Note
  • Introduction
  • PART I : 1912
  • Chapter 1. The Great Transformation
  • Chapter 2. The Progressive Campaign
  • PART II: 1932
  • Chapter 3. The Road to the New Deal
  • Chapter 4. The Promise of Change
  • PART III: 1968
  • Chapter 5. The Fracturing of America
  • Chapter 6. Improbable Victories
  • PART IV: 1992
  • Chapter 7. Reagan Revolutionaries and New Democrats
  • Chapter 8. The CNN President
  • Conclusion: Hope and Change
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments