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Article: No success like failure.(Book Review)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- May 3, 2004
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EUGENE McCARTHY: the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism. By Dominic Sandbrook. Knopf. 397 pp. $25.95.
Eugene McCarthy has always been a mysterious and frustrating figure. Nothing he did before 1968 hinted that he would become the liberals' antiwar leader and challenge an incumbent Democratic President; nothing he did after 1968 accomplished much of anything. Dominic Sandbrook skillfully conveys the events and the experience as well as the arguments of that year. Although he is a Shropshire lad born in 1974, Sandbrook argues like my father, born in Duluth in 1921 and a good Minnesota Democrat: He insists we focus on how the story of 1968 ended. The split ...
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Transcript: New Hampshire Primary Losing Luster as Century ...
NPR Morning Edition;
February 13, 1996 ;
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... ... conservatives. Ike won New Hampshire, the GOP nomination ... Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy challenged President ... LBJ to retire. Then McCarthy, too, went nowhere. During the 1970s, New Hampshire stayed important on the ...
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