The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media AgeTransaction Publishers, 2011 M12 31 - 353 páginas 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. Barber probes beneath the surface of campaigns to detect a steady rhythm of major political motifs. The theory he advances in colorful narrative chapters is that three dominant themes-conflict, conscience, conciliation-recur in foreseeable twelve-year cycles. A combative campaign-Truman vs. Dewey in 1948-is followed four years later by a moral crusade-Eisenhower vs. Stevenson in 1952-which in turn is succeeded by a contest to unify the nation-the Eisenhower-Stevenson rematch in 1956. The pattern is then renewed: the fierce combat between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 was followed in 1964 by the contest of principle between Johnson and Goldwater. In 1968 Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey by promising to bring the nation together. Monitoring shifting national political moods is a new elite: the journalists. Barber makes the case that the party system, increasingly clumsy and inflexible, can no longer pick up the beat of politics. Instead it is through newspapers, magazines, and television that the main themes of a campaign are sounded, created, and destroyed. This new edition of The Pulse of Politics provides a timely guide to the themes of the 1992 presidential campaign and to future elections. It will be of special interest to political scientists, historians, media analysts, and journalists. |
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... democracy . Think about it : if we are to have government " by consent of the governed , " the consent has to be reasoned . And reason for politics is reason about the reality of our society , a reality ranging from how things are ...
... democracy . Think about it : if we are to have government " by consent of the governed , " the consent has to be reasoned . And reason for politics is reason about the reality of our society , a reality ranging from how things are ...
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... Democrats or Republicans . The victor went into the White House claiming a party mandate that he and his fellow ... democracy : cut out the bosses who did us wrong , spread power to The People . Big money was seen as a villainous ...
... Democrats or Republicans . The victor went into the White House claiming a party mandate that he and his fellow ... democracy : cut out the bosses who did us wrong , spread power to The People . Big money was seen as a villainous ...
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... Democratic convention , already split into wildly contending camps . The Democrats fought through forty - six con- vention ballots before the conservative faction finally won out , nominating a new face on the national scene , ex ...
... Democratic convention , already split into wildly contending camps . The Democrats fought through forty - six con- vention ballots before the conservative faction finally won out , nominating a new face on the national scene , ex ...
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... Democratic convention ; torn to shreds by factional fights , it took the Democrats three weeks of inter- necine combat and 103 ballots to light on a dull and ineffective Wall Street lawyer named John W. Davis . The party went into the ...
... Democratic convention ; torn to shreds by factional fights , it took the Democrats three weeks of inter- necine combat and 103 ballots to light on a dull and ineffective Wall Street lawyer named John W. Davis . The party went into the ...
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... Democrats found their cure in Franklin D. Roosevelt , governor of New York , unknown to most Americans , depicted by ... democracy , handing that flag to Wendell Willkie , son of the Indiana soil , a businessman like Hoover but even ...
... Democrats found their cure in Franklin D. Roosevelt , governor of New York , unknown to most Americans , depicted by ... democracy , handing that flag to Wendell Willkie , son of the Indiana soil , a businessman like Hoover but even ...
Contenido
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Harry Truman 1948 | 47 |
John Kennedy 1960 | 64 |
George McGovern 1972 | 87 |
THE POLITICS OF CONSCIENCE | 105 |
Woodrow Wilson 1916 | 111 |
Wendell Willkie 1940 | 138 |
THE POLITICS OF CONCILIATION | 211 |
Warren Harding 1920 | 217 |
Franklin Roosevelt 1932 | 238 |
Dwight Eisenhower³ 1956 | 264 |
Richard Nixon 1968 | 287 |
A Vision Beyond the Myth | 311 |
A Note of Appreciation | 323 |
Index | 333 |
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