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Author O'Donnell, Lawrence, author.

Title Playing with fire : the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics / Lawrence O'Donnell.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2017.

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 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  324.973 ODo    ---  Available
Description 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-470) and index.
Contents Seizing the moment -- Declaring war -- "Why isn't he a priest?" -- Sleepy Hollow -- "A hard and harsh moral judgment" -- Dump Johnson -- The general -- "We will never be young again" -- Old politics -- "A decent interval" -- Peace with honor -- Peter the hermit -- "Clean for Gene" -- The new Nixon -- "Nixon's the one" -- "Abigail said no" -- The poor people's campaign -- "Something bad is going to come of this" -- "Stand up and be counted" -- "It's not important what happens to me" -- "I've seen the promised land" -- The happy warrior -- Don't lose -- "Everything's going to be okay" -- Stop Nixon -- "Great television" -- The last liberal standing -- The peace plank -- "The whole world's watching" -- "The government of people in exile" -- The perfect crime -- Epilogue.
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1968.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969.
Other Form: Online version: O'Donnell, Lawrence. Playing with fire New York : Penguin Press, 2017 9780399563157 (DLC) 2017032254
ISBN 9780399563140
0399563148

 
    
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