Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist, Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democratic party over Vietnam. His...
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Sep 24, 2007
Nathan
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Eugene McCarthy more or less embodied anti-war, socialistic American liberalism in 1968. He came close to winning the New Hampshire primary, was a significant factor in L.B.J.'s decision not to run again, and inspired a generation to political idealism. Then he was gone, and pretty much forgotten. British historian Dominic Sandbrook uses this as a metaphor for late 1960's American liberalism. In Eugene McCarthy's rise and fall Sandbrook finds the perfect metaphor for the real subject of his book
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Oct 22, 2011
Andrew
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Well-balanced and insightful, but it suffers from the inescapable fact that Gene McCarthy simply wasn't a very interesting or significant historical figure. Like the man himself, his biography's dramatic arc peaks too early and then simply withers in its last 100 pages.
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