Hate Burst Out
Kim Phillips-Fein: Chicago, 1968, 15 August 2024
The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
by Luke A. Nichter.
Yale, 370 pp., £35, October 2023,978 0 300 25439 6 Show More
by Luke A. Nichter.
Yale, 370 pp., £35, October 2023,
“... Clifton White, the political strategist who engineered the Goldwater nomination in 1964) had hoped Ronald Reagan would be the nominee, the party quickly coalesced around Nixon, who sailed to victory in the primaries. He was no one’s idea of a dream candidate. He had lost a presidential election once before, in 1960, albeit by the narrowest of margins. He was ... ”