The politics of the 1950s revolved around two primary leaders, one Republican and one Democrat—both moderate, and both willing to compromise to move the nation forward. The Republican leader was President Dwight Eisenhower. His two administrations changed American politics. Ike’s desire to be president of all the people, to run his administration down the middle of the road, to be a “modern” Republican, set the stage for what the Republican Party would be for decades to come. His politics of moderation triggered a backlash from the party’s right wing that eventually grew into a conservative surge that reached fruition in the following decades. Standing astride the opposition was the Democratic leader in the Senate, Lyndon Johnson. At age 44, Johnson was the youngest leader in Senate history. His willingness to join forces with Eisenhower in the president’s battles against isolationism and reaction in his own party, along with the willingness of both men to compromise rather than engage in a politics of search and destroy, turned the 1950s into an era of political moderation. In The Secret Coalition, Gary A. Donaldson insightfully explores a period in U.S. history that many Americans regard as an “Era of Good Feeling”—when the two parties got along, and the nation achieved some sort of equilibrium and cooperation.
The chilling story of the covert group at the core of the Radical Right’s ongoing assault on America’s airwaves, schools, environment, and, ultimately, its democracy.
Building Red America will bring home to readers for the first time the true extent of the Republican takeover of American politics, by revealing the chief architects of political revolution.
This volume examines the conflicts and consequences of US military and foreign policy since the end of WWII.
56 steer American politics: Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics (New York: Norton, 1991); “. . . chain reaction, a point of political combustion reached as a ...
Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, for the first time, sealed secret police files in Chicago and interviews conducted with often reticent former members of the ILBPP, Williams explores ...
With the lives of her friends a stake, Shai must uncover the truth about her past and her identity before it's too late. This young adult novel is episode one, book one in a trilogy.
Alisder Fyne and Franck Muller.” He'd forgotten all about Commander Fyne. Everybody seemed to. The poor asshole had kept what little was left of NCOG running for years until Michaelson was recalled, and then he just vanished back into ...
In the Irish and German Catholic communities whose Democratic trend had given Truman essential support in 1948, Senator McCarthy was little less than a hero. The typical Irish plumbing contractor and his work crew shared hearty ...
The Talon Empire has flourished due to their sole possession of dragon-riders.
Over the whole post - war period the party composition of coalitions was changed only twice . In 1947 the KPÖ left the government and in 1986 the SPÖ abandoned its coalition with the FPÖ , reacting to a change in the FPÖ leadership ...