Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics since 1968

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Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics since 1968

Gary W. Reichard

Description

Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era.

Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American politics in the last half century has been the "rise of the Right"
Considers the achievements and frustrations of each administration, from Nixon to Obama, in its assessment of contemporary U.S. politics
Features authorship by an expert scholar in the field who takes a thematic rather than a partisan approach to recent American politics
Offers a concise, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date synthesis of the literature in the field and concludes with a comprehensive bibliographical essay, an aid to student research

About the Author

Gary W. Reichard is Provost / Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. In addition to teaching post-World War II United States history at the college level, Reichard has taught the history of American political parties and the history of American immigration and ethnicity. He is the author of The Reaffirmation of Republicanism: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Eighty-third Congress and Politics as Usual: The Age of Truman and Eisenhower (2nd Ed.), and is a former member of the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians.

Series

The American History Series

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