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Still Seeing Red - How The Cold War Shapes The New American Politics (Hardcover)
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Still Seeing Red - How The Cold War Shapes The New American Politics (Hardcover)
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In Still Seeing Red, John Kenneth White explores how the Cold War
molded the internal politics of the United States. In a powerful
narrative backed by a rich treasure trove of polling data, White
takes the reader through the Cold War years, describing its effect
in redrawing the electoral map as we came to know it after World
War II. The primary beneficiaries of the altered landscape were
reinvigorated Republicans who emerged after five successive defeats
to tar the Democrats with the ?soft on communism? epithet. A new
nationalist Republican party?whose Cold War prescription for
winning the White House was copyrighted to Dwight Eisenhower,
Richard M. Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan?attained
primacy in presidential politics because of two contradictory
impulses embedded in the American character: a fanatical
preoccupation with communism and a robust liberalism. From 1952 to
1988 Republicans won the presidency seven times in ten tries. The
rare Democratic victors?John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and
Jimmy Carter?attempted to rearm the Democratic party to fight the
Cold War. Their collective failure says much about the politics of
the period. Even so, the Republican dream of becoming a majority
party became perverted as the Grand Old Party was recast into a
top-down party routinely winning the presidency even as its
electoral base remained relatively stagnant.In the post?Cold War
era, Americans are coming to appreciate how the fifty-year struggle
with the Soviet Union organized thinking in such diverse areas as
civil rights, social welfare, education, and defense policy. At the
same time, Americans are also more aware of how the Cold War shaped
their lives?from the ?duck and cover? drills in the classrooms to
the bomb shelters dug in the backyard when most Baby Boomers were
growing up. Like millions of Baby Boomers, Bill Clinton can
truthfully say, ?I am a child of the Cold War.?With the last gasp
of the Soviet Union, Baby Boomers and others are learning t
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