When America Liked Ike : How Moderates Won the 1952 Presidential Election and Reshaped American Politics

The 2016 election cycle put in sharp relief the rifts that divide, and threaten to destroy, the Republican Party. While some claim these divisions originated in Nixon's "Southern Strategy" or in Newt Gingrich's tenure as Minority Whip, Gary Donaldson argues that the conflict has its origins much earlier, at least as far back as the 1952 presidential election. That election pitted the conservative wing of the Republican Party (the Right Wing, the Old Guard, what is now the Tea Party) against the Republican moderates, represented by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Set against the backdrop of the Korean War and escalating cold war tensions, the 1952 presidential campaign culminated in Eisenhower's landslide victory over Adlai Stevenson. The election exposed deep internal divisions on the left and the right, but especially within the Republican Party. This book will prove an invaluable resource to readers, students, and scholars interested in rooting out the origins of our contemporary political landscape, on the right and the left. Chapter 1: "Background to the Age, and the Scramble to Nominate Eisenhower" Chapter 2: Stevenson of Illinois Chapter 3: Eisenhower Decides to Run Chapter 4: Truman Decides Not to Run Chapter 5: Democrats on the Periphery: Russell and Kefauver and the Democratic Party Primaries Chapter 6: The1952 Campaign as the Beginning of the Future of American Politics Chapter 7: Conventions Chapter 8: The Campaign Election Statistics (Electoral College) 1952. "In this book, Gary Donaldson argues that the 1952 presidential election, which exposed deep internal divisions on the left and the right, set the stage for the current U.S. political landscape. This book will prove an invaluable resource to readers, students, and scholars interested in rooting out the origins of our contemporary political landscape, on the right and the left"-- Provided by publisher