1968 was a year of turmoil. Economic anxiety was on the rise;
racial conflicts were increasingly aggressive as the Black Power
movement gained visibility; LBJ's massive bombing campaign had
escalated the war in Vietnam; and at home, an emerging
counter-culture and vocal feminist movement were declaring war on
traditional values. With the assassinations of Martin Luther King,
Jr. in April and Robert F. Kennedy in June, the nation teetered on
the brink of chaos. It all culminated in the dramatic presidential
race that year, which brought together a dynamic group of
politicians vying for the nation's confidence-and resulted in an
election that palpably and irrevocably transformed American
politics. In Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of
Division, Michael Cohen captures the drama of the events leading up
to this watershed moment. The political consensus that existed just
four years prior had completely disappeared, replaced by division
and acrimony on a scale rarely before seen in the country's
history. Despite the impressive array of political talent assembled
in the presidential election-Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy, Hubert
Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney,
Ronald Reagan and George Wallace-the candidates struggled to appeal
to a nation deeply divided by race, class, and values. Cohen traces
the new tactics, rhetoric, and issues that emerged in the campaign,
from Nixon's so-called Southern Strategy to win over Democrats to
Wallace's third-party run, which caused deep divisions among
conservatives and traditional Republicans. Ultimately, Cohen proves
1968 to be a hinge between the high-water period of 1960s political
liberalism to the ascendancy of conservative populism and
anti-government attitudes that continue to dominate the nation's
political discourse. The political battles in Washington today are
being waged on a battlefield constructed in 1968, and in unraveling
the complex story of that year, Cohen sketches out the broad lines
of American politics over the past four decades.
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