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The Election of the Evangelical - Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976 (Hardcover)
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The Election of the Evangelical - Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976 (Hardcover)
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From where we stand now, the election of 1976 can look like an
alternate reality: southern white evangelicals united with African
Americans, northern Catholics, and Jews in support of a Democratic
presidential candidate; the Republican candidate, a social moderate
whose wife proudly proclaimed her support for Roe v. Wade, was able
to win over Great Plains farmers as well as cultural liberals in
Oregon, California, Connecticut, and New Jersey - even as he lost
Ohio, Texas, and nearly the entire South. The Election of the
Evangelical offers an unprecedented, behind-the-headlines analysis
of this now almost unimaginable political moment, which proved to
be a pivotal turning point in polarizing American political parties
along ideological and cultural lines and eventually in destroying
the winning coalition that Jimmy Carter created. The big story
immediately following the election was that a self-described
evangelical Christian and improbably dark-horse candidate from the
Deep South had won the presidency, leading Newsweek to call 1976
the 'year of the evangelical.' What pundits overlooked at the time,
and what Daniel K. Williams delves into in this book, was the
profound effect of the election on the nation's political parties.
In the first comprehensive historical study of this consequential
election, Williams mines untapped archival materials to uncover the
strategies of the Ford, Carter, and Reagan campaigns and Republican
and Democratic leaders in 1976. His work explains why, despite
Ford's and Carter's efforts to the contrary, the 1976 presidential
election reshaped the political parties along ideologically
polarized lines. As he examines the role that religion and 'values
voting' played in 1976, Williams reveals why Carter was the last
Democrat to hold together a New Deal-style coalition of white
southern evangelicals, northern Catholics, and African Americans.
His findings dispel the most common myths about why Ford lost the
election and clarify what his defeat meant for the future of the
Republican Party. An eye-opening account of electoral politics at
an epochal crossroads, this book provides valuable historical
perspective and critical insight in a time of seemingly
ever-increasing partisan polarization in American political life.
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