From Thurmond to Wallace: Political Tendencies in Georgia, 1948-1968
(New York governor David Paterson, the grandson of Caribbean immigrants, has political roots from that period as the son of former New York secretary of state Basil Paterson.) Two of the most influential Democrats in New York in the ...
William Loeb, the conservative publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, testified against the bill, as did Thomas L. Poindexter, co-chairman of the 250,000-member Greater Detroit Homeowners Council. Poindexter's explanation of the ...
Left, Right, Out is the untold story of American political history. Exploring American history from its founding, David A. Epstein presents the phenomena that shaped the nation and its politics through the prism of third party politics.
Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century Benn Steil. their chance " and " let me down . " Truman , in fact ... for Thurmond voters , and 46 for Dewey voters . In terms of eco- nomic class , Truman's support came most heavily ...
This book describes what the authors identify as an emerging political crisis in U.S. politics: the possible winning of the presidency by a candidate with far fewer votes than his or her opponent.
She now runs MusicBox Project, a 501(c)(3) arts organization documenting and preserving music history while ... A fellow of the American Folklore Society, he also coedited An Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook (University of Arkansas Press, ...
... Wallace both played on racist ideology but victory was too unlikely for other Southern Democrats to make long-term investments ofpolitical capital.20 Thurmond ... Thurmond's campaign was a vigorous protest against the national establishment ...
17, 2008), SOHP; Jack Bass and Alice Cabaniss, “Strike at Charleston,” New South 24 (1969), 35–44; Robert H. Zieger, For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865 ...
Congressman Carroll Campbell , a future two - term governor , said that Thurmond gave wholehearted support to Reagan after the South Carolina primary . “ He and I rode around South Carolina for a week in a camper , visiting thirty ...