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• ISBN: 9780802716972
• ISBN: 0802716970
• Physical Description: ix, 562 pages ; 21 cm
• Edition: 1st U.S. edition
• Publisher: New York : Walker & Co. : 2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-522) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Great Commoner 17 -- 2 New Nationalism versus the New Freedom 35 -- 3 A "Return to Normalcy" 65 -- 4 "Rugged Individualism" versus "Bold, Persistent Experimentation" 77 -- 5 "Rendezvous with Destiny" 125 -- 6 Birth of a Political Stereotype 142 -- 7 "The Bright Sunshine of Human Rights" 177 -- 8 "Let's Talk Sense to the American People" 189 -- 9 Checkers Speech 207 -- 10 "I Shall Go to Korea" 231 -- 11 New Frontier 248 -- 12 Getting Religion on the Campaign Trail 262 -- 13 Conservative Moment 276 -- 14 "Forgotten Americans" and the Politics of Fear 299 -- 15 America "Come Home" 340 -- 16 Triumph of Conservatism 367 -- 17 Liberals Strike Back 395 -- 18 Murphy Brown and the Culture Wars 435 -- 19 "I Still Believe in a Place Called Hope" 462.

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