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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... peace . Prosperity followed his election . In time the public , spurred on by the newly burgeoning Yellow Press , began to lust for adventure . They got it in the Spanish - American War , which broke out in 1898 and provided the ...
... peace . Prosperity followed his election . In time the public , spurred on by the newly burgeoning Yellow Press , began to lust for adventure . They got it in the Spanish - American War , which broke out in 1898 and provided the ...
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... peace , though he did not neglect to criticize the opposition . As the election season approached , the economy went shaky , with several tem- porary but frightening panics and increasing rates of unemployment . Roose- velt's choice as ...
... peace , though he did not neglect to criticize the opposition . As the election season approached , the economy went shaky , with several tem- porary but frightening panics and increasing rates of unemployment . Roose- velt's choice as ...
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... Peace brought domestic strife - a wave of violent strikes , race riots , bombings , a Red scare , soaring inflation . An exhausted nation was ready for a rest . In 1920 the Republicans found just the man for that , harmonizing Warren G ...
... Peace brought domestic strife - a wave of violent strikes , race riots , bombings , a Red scare , soaring inflation . An exhausted nation was ready for a rest . In 1920 the Republicans found just the man for that , harmonizing Warren G ...
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... . Eisen- hower , meanwhile , grinned and presided . Adlai Stevenson , renominated , added to the general anxiety by trying to get a fight going in 1956. Eisen- hower , renominated , spoke of peace and harmony . THE PULSE OF POLITICS 17.
... . Eisen- hower , meanwhile , grinned and presided . Adlai Stevenson , renominated , added to the general anxiety by trying to get a fight going in 1956. Eisen- hower , renominated , spoke of peace and harmony . THE PULSE OF POLITICS 17.
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... peace and harmony . The electorate re- sponded : they liked Ike , their warmhearted friend in the White House . Cycle VI : 1960 , 1964 , 1968 1960 Conflict The appeal of placidity slowly waned in Eisenhower's second term ; the appeal of ...
... peace and harmony . The electorate re- sponded : they liked Ike , their warmhearted friend in the White House . Cycle VI : 1960 , 1964 , 1968 1960 Conflict The appeal of placidity slowly waned in Eisenhower's second term ; the appeal of ...
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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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The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age James David Barber Vista previa limitada - 2011 |
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