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The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election / Walter LaFeber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaFeber, Walter
- Series:
- Vietnam--America in the war years (Unnumbered)
- Vietnam--America in the war years
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Presidents--United States--Election--1968.
- Presidents.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Politics and government.
- Presidents--Election.
- United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2005.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In The Deadly Bet, distinguished historian Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players-including Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Nguyen Van Thieu, and Lyndon Johnson-LaFeber shows the importance of domestic upheaval on the election.
- Contents:
- General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive
- Senator Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade
- Lyndon Johnson : "people grow tired of confusion"
- Martin Luther King : the dream
- Robert Kennedy : the "national soul"
- Richard Nixon : the candidate from Squaresville?
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the politics of joy
- George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era
- Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8183-231-5
- 979-82-16-24565-0
- 9786613912138
- 1-283-59968-6
- 0-7425-7625-6
- OCLC:
- 817812603
- Publisher Number:
- MWT15817807
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