Legacies of Losing in American Politics / Jeffrey K. Tulis, Nicole Mellow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tulis, Jeffrey, author.

Mellow, Nicole, author.

Series:

Chicago studies in American politics.

Chicago Studies in American Politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875.

Johnson, Andrew.

Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998.

Goldwater, Barry M.

Federal government--United States.

Federal government.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also been built on defeated candidates, failed presidents, and social movements that at pivotal moments did not dissipate as expected but instead persisted and eventually achieved success for the loser's ideas and preferred policies. With Legacies of Losing in American Politics, Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow rethink three pivotal moments in American political history: the founding, when anti-Federalists failed to stop the ratification of the Constitution; the aftermath of the Civil War, when President Andrew Johnson's plan for restoring the South to the Union was defeated; and the 1964 presidential campaign, when Barry Goldwater's challenge to the New Deal order was soundly defeated by Lyndon B. Johnson. In each of these cases, the very mechanisms that caused the initial failures facilitated their eventual success. After the dust of the immediate political defeat settled, these seemingly discredited ideas and programs disrupted political convention by prevailing, often subverting, and occasionally enhancing constitutional fidelity. Tulis and Mellow present a nuanced story of winning and losing and offer a new understanding of American political development as the interweaving of opposing ideas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Political Failure, and Success

2. Founding The Anti-Federal Appropriation

3. Reconstruction Andrew Johnson's Politics of Obstruction

4. New Deal Barry Gold water's Politics of Integrity

5. Legacies of Loss in American Politics

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226515465

022651546X

OCLC:

1015676122