Independent nation, how centrism is changing the face of American politics, John P. Avlon
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Independent nation, how centrism is changing the face of American politics, John P. Avlon
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-377)
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Independent nation
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John P. Avlon
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how centrism is changing the face of American politics
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Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 : the Rough Rider takes on the robber barons -- Harry Truman, 1948 : the man from Independence fights a three-front war -- The rise and fall of Jimmy Carter : facing Ronald Reagan, John Anderson, and Ted Kennedy in the election of 1980 -- Governor Buddy Roemer, 1991 : a reformer falls to a crook and the KKK in the Big Easy -- Woodrow Wilson, 1912 : a Progressive beats the party bosses -- John F. Kennedy, 1960 : an idealist without illusions charts a cold-warrior course -- Richard Nixon, 1968 : a promise to "bring us together" -- Bill Clinton, 1992 : leading the Democrats out of the wilderness and into the White House -- California governor Earl Warren, 1946 : the knight of nonpartisanship wins both primaries -- Eisenhower vs. Taft, 1952 : the internationalist vs. the isolationist -- Nelson Rockefeller vs. Barry Goldwater, 1964 : the liberal Republican vs. an advocate of "extremism" -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan vs. Bella Abzug, 1976 : the neo-con vs. the New Left -- Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 1950 : the lady from Maine stands up to Joe McCarthy -- Senator Edward W. Brooke, 1973 : stuck in the middle of the civil rights movement -- Radical centrists. The independent governors of the 1990s ; Governor Lowell Weicker of Connecticut ; Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota ; Governor Angus King of Maine -- Rudy Giuliani, 1997 : an independent reformer restores the glory to Gotham -- Election 2000 : the compassionate conservative vs. a practical idealist and the Straight Talk Express
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