The Pulse of Politics

by Barber,James David

• ISBN13: 9781560005896
• ISBN10: 1560005890
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Every four years, journalists propel a presidential campaign into the national consciousness. New candidates and issues become features of the political landscape while familiar rituals are reshaped by the unpredictability of personalities and events. Underlying this apparent process of change, however, is a recurrent cycle of political themes and social attitudes, a pulse of politics that locks the process of choosing a president into a predictable pattern. In this bold and brilliant examination of modern presidential politics, James David Barber reveals the dynamics of this cycle and shows how the pattern of drift and reaction may be broken in this most critical of political choices.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Premise	p. 1
The Presidential Beat	p. 3
The Pulse of Politics	p. 13
The Politics of Conflict	p. 23
Theodore Roosevelt 1900	p. 29
Harry Truman 1948	p. 47
John Kennedy 1960	p. 64
George McGovern 1972	p. 87
The Politics of Conscience	p. 105
Woodrow Wilson 1916	p. 111
Wendell Willkie 1940	p. 138
Barry Goldwater 1964	p. 161
Jimmy Carter 1976	p. 184
The Politics of Conciliation	p. 211
Warren Harding 1920	p. 217
Franklin Roosevelt 1932	p. 238
Dwight Eisenhower 1956	p. 264
Richard Nixon 1968	p. 287
Proposal	p. 309
A Vision Beyond the Myth	p. 311
A Note of Appreciation	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 333
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