Tuesday night massacre four Senate elections and the radicalization of the Republican Party /
"Examines how independent expenditure campaigns in 1980, with its divisive, negative techniques, accompanied by the radicalization of the Republican Party, fundamentally altered the conduct of American politics"--
Main Author: | Johnson, Marc C., 1953- |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2021]
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Physical Description: |
247 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. A new kind of politics
- A group like ours could lie through its teeth
- Test run
- Anybody but church
- If Bayh wins, you lose
- The propaganda keeps coming
- Just two guys running for the Senate
- This is the work of God
- Legacy of the winners
- Epilogue. 1980, the Senate, and the GOP.