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Richard Nixon and the quest for a new majority
By Mason, Robert L
- ISBN
- 978-0-80782-905-9
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 15, 2004
Following his election in 1968, President Nixon planned to bring together lower- and middle-class Catholics, Irish, Poles, and white Southerners in a conservative majority that would end the more than 30-year reign of Democratic liberalism. Mason (history, Univ. of Edinburgh) offers a well-researched scholarly appraisal of why Nixon failed. Several reasons are given: Nixon lacked a presidential mandate f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
