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Two Suns of the Southwest - Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism (Paperback)
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Two Suns of the Southwest - Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism (Paperback)
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Over time the presidential election of 1964 has come to be seen as
a generational shift, a defining moment in which Americans
deliberated between two distinctly different visions for the
future. In its juxtaposition of these divergent visions, Two Suns
of the Southwest is the first full account of this critical
election and its legacy for US politics.The 1964 election, in Nancy
Beck Young's telling, was a contest between two men of the
Southwest, each with a very different idea of what the Southwest
was and what America should be. Barry Goldwater, the Republican
senator from Arizona, came to represent a nostalgic, idealized
past, a preservation of traditional order, while Lyndon B. Johnson,
the Democratic incumbent from Texas, looked boldly and hopefully
toward an expansive, liberal future of increased opportunity. Thus,
as we see in Two Suns of the Southwest, the election was also a
showdown between liberalism and conservatism, an election whose
outcome would echo throughout the rest of the century. Young
explores how demographics, namely the rise of the Sunbelt, factored
into the framing and reception of these competing ideas. Her work
situates Johnson's Sunbelt liberalism as universalist, designed to
create space for all Americans; Goldwater's Sunbelt conservatism
was far more restrictive, at least with regard to what the federal
government should do. In this respect the election became a debate
about individual rights versus legislated equality as priorities of
the federal government. Young explores all the cultural and
political elements and events that figured in this narrative,
allowing Johnson to unite disaffected Republicans with independents
and Democrats in a winning coalition. On a final note Young
connects the 1964 election to the current state of our democracy,
explaining the irony whereby the winning candidate's vision has
grown stale while the losing candidate's has become much more
central to American politics.
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