Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party's Soul

by Timothy Stanley

The late Edward Kennedy's liberal credentials were unimpeachable, and perhaps never as much on display as when he challenged incumbent Jimmy Carter for the presidency. Most accounts of modern U.S. politics view Ronald Reagan's landslide election in 1980 as a conservative realignment of the American public-and Kennedy's defeat in the Democratic primaries as the last hurrah of New Deal liberalism. Now an astute observer of the American scene reexamines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700617027
• ISBN13: 9780700617029
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"