{"product_id":"deadlock-and-disillusionment-isbn-9781118934357","title":"Deadlock and Disillusionment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American politics in the last half century has been the \"rise of the Right\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the achievements and frustrations of each administration, from Nixon to Obama, in its assessment of contemporary U.S. politics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures authorship by an expert scholar in the field who takes a thematic rather than a partisan approach to recent American politics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a concise, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date synthesis of the literature in the field and concludes with a comprehensive bibliographical essay, an aid to student research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: 1968—The End of an Era 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Politics of Cynicism, 1968–1974 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shaping of a New Majority 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConservatism as Reform 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of War and Détente 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWatergate and Its Aftermath 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Futility of Moderation, 1974–1976 43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Forgiveness 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresident as Political Prisoner 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDétente Derailed 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Dashed Hopes, 1976–1980 60\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFractured Majority 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThreading the Needle 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Abandonment of Idealism 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Dogma and (More) Disappointment, 1980–1988 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of the Right 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaganomics 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture Wars and Party Politics 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReagan's World 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Squandering the Inheritance, 1988–1992 136\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuccession by Hardball 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bills Come Due 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew World (Dis)Order 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Deepening Divide, 1992–2000 171\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Illusion of Liberal Revival 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Triangulation 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuest for a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrises of the Clinton Presidency 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Politics of Polarization, 2000–2008 221\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUltimate Deadlock: Bush v. Gore 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Anti-terrorism 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImagined Mandate 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Certitude 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 The Politics of Red and Blue, since 2008 277\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Hope 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGovernment by Dysfunction 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Trench Warfare 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Deadlock and Disillusionment 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographical Essay 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 355\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary W. Reichard\u003c\/b\u003e is Provost \/ Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. In addition to teaching post-World War II United States history at the college level, Reichard has taught the history of American political parties and the history of American immigration and ethnicity. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reaffirmation of Republicanism: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Eighty-third Congress and Politics as Usual: The Age of Truman and Eisenhower \u003c\/i\u003e(2nd Ed.), and is a former member of the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians.\u003c\/p\u003e Polarization, divisiveness, and dysfunction are defining features of early 21st-century American politics—with no apparent end in sight. How did we get here? \u003ci\u003eDeadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968\u003c\/i\u003e explores the politics and policy debates, from the Nixon administration to the waning days of the Obama presidency, that have shaped the present-day political landscape. Rejecting the conventional wisdom that the recent political era has been characterized by the rise and primacy of the political right, in this latest volume in the distinguished American History Series, Gary Reichard shows how recent decades have been characterized by a hardening deadlock between the parties and increasing disillusionment in the electorate. Initial chapters take us from Nixon’s cynical \"Southern strategy\" and the emergent Republican majority, to the Watergate scandal and its aftermath, up through the abandonment of idealism in the late 1970s. Themes explored in the decade of the ’80s include the rise of the right-wing politics, culture wars, and Reaganomics—followed by a look at the very real costs of “trickle down” economics. Reichard then traces the deepening divide of the final decade of the twentieth century by exploring such issues as the illusion of a liberal revival, the quest for a post-Cold War foreign policy, and the crises of the Clinton presidency. Coverage of the polarizing politics of the early years of the new millennium includes the divisive resolution of \u003ci\u003eBush\u003c\/i\u003e vs. \u003ci\u003eGore\u003c\/i\u003e and partisan battles over the war on terrorism. The concluding chapter explores partisanship since 2008 by looking at the politics of hope, government by dysfunction, and the trench warfare that is contemporary politics. Timely and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eDeadlock and Disillusionment\u003c\/i\u003e offers illuminating insights into the roots and evolution of the near permanent state of gridlock that has come to define America’s contemporary political era.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989028192485,"sku":"NP9781118934357","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118934357.jpg?v=1761782499","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/deadlock-and-disillusionment-isbn-9781118934357","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}