Eugene McCarthy

Zusatztext An interesting book! handsomely written! and closely researched. The Weekly Standard Massively researched. . . . Sandbrook is effective in conveying the sense of a wasted talent. The Nation Dominic Sandbrook's subtle! intelligent portrait gives us Gene McCarthy in all his enigmatic brilliance. . . . At a time when so much political history comes to us as scandal and gossip! this absorbing book reminds us where the drama of politics really beginsin the tensions between idealism and compromise! intellect and passion! knowledge and delusion. Sam Tanenhaus! author of Whittaker Chambers McCarthy has lacked a full-scale biography; now! thanks to a young British historian! Dominic Sandbrook! he has a very good one. . . . Sandbrook brings both McCarthy and American liberalism alive. . . . A stunning achievement. History Book Club Review (Editors' choice) Highly readable. . . . Captures all of the drama and historical significance of both McCarthy the man and the political era that he helped define. Tucson Citizen A consummate political biography. Dominic Sandbrook insightfully probes Eugene McCarthy's complex role in the decay of American liberalism. Avoiding nostalgia! he writes with an incisive and compelling honesty. . . . A sobering story in vivid prose! rich in nuance. Alan Taylor! Pulitzer Prizewinning author of William Cooper's Town Sandbrook's biography will command attention and spark discussion about this controversial career and McCarthy's role in the end of the New Deal liberal consensus. Publishers Weekly Illuminating. . . . Sandbrook is especially good at describing how McCarthy's Catholicism formed his political visionÉ. Scholarly! scrupulously researched. Library Journal This incisive account of the career both of postwar liberalism and of one of its most romantic standard-bearers reads like the anatomy of a lost cause lost thanks not only to ideological choices but to the all-too-human attributes of arrogance! self-absorption and spite. An invaluable book for liberals who want to understand how they got where they are. James Traub! contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine Informationen zum Autor Dominic Sandbrook Klappentext Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist! Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democratic party over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire primary inspired young liberals and was one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history. But the 1968 election ultimately brought Richard Nixon and the Republican Party to power! irrevocably shifting the country's political landscape to the right for decades to come. Dominic Sandbrook traces one of the most remarkable and significant lives in postwar politics! a career marked by both courage and arrogance. Sandbrook draws on extensive new research - including interviews with McCarthy himself - to show convincingly how Eugene McCarthy's political experience embodies the larger decline of American liberalism after World War II. These were tumultuous times in American politics! and Sandbrook vividly captures the drama and historical significance through his intimate portrait of a singularly interesting man at the heart of it all. Leseprobe Chapter One The Watkins Wonder Eugene Joseph McCarthy was born in the small town of Watkins, Minnesota, on 29 March 1916. Although he was half German by blood, McCarthy always presented himself as an Irishman, relishing his frequent trips to Ireland and long conversations about Irish literature over a glass of whisky. His mother's parents were in fact German Catholics, while his father's family was Irish. His paternal grandparents, Michael McCarthy and Mary Harbinson, hailed from County Cork and...

ldquo;An interesting book, handsomely written, and closely researched.” –*The Weekly Standard

• “Massively researched. . . . Sandbrook is effective in conveying the sense of a wasted talent.” –*The Nation
• “Dominic Sandbrook’s subtle, intelligent portrait gives us Gene McCarthy in all his enigmatic brilliance. . . . At a time when so much political history comes to us as scandal and gossip, this absorbing book reminds us where the drama of politics really begins–in the tensions between idealism and compromise, intellect and passion, knowledge and delusion.” –Sam Tanenhaus, author of Whittaker Chambers

“McCarthy has lacked a full-scale biography; now, thanks to a young British historian, Dominic Sandbrook, he has a very good one. . . . Sandbrook brings both McCarthy and American liberalism alive. . . . A stunning achievement.”
–History Book Club Review (Editors’ choice)

“Highly readable. . . . Captures all of the drama and historical significance of both McCarthy the man and the political era that he helped define.” –*Tucson Citizen

• “A consummate political biography. Dominic Sandbrook insightfully probes Eugene McCarthy’s complex role in the decay of American liberalism. Avoiding nostalgia, he writes with an incisive and compelling honesty. . . . A sobering story in vivid prose, rich in nuance.” –Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of *William Cooper’s Town
• “Sandbrook’s biography will command attention and spark discussion about this controversial career and McCarthy’s role in the end of the New Deal liberal consensus.”
  –*Publishers Weekly
• “Illuminating. . . . Sandbrook is especially good at describing how McCarthy’s Catholicism formed his political visionÉ. Scholarly, scrupulously researched.” –*Library Journal

“This incisive account of the career both of postwar liberalism and of one of its most romantic standard-bearers reads like the anatomy of a lost cause —lost thanks not only to ideological choices but to the all-too-human attributes of arrogance, self-absorption and spite. An invaluable book for liberals who want to understand how they got where they are.” –James Traub, contributing writer for *The New York Times Magazine

Auteur

Dominic Sandbrook

Texte du rabat

Originally a New Deal liberal and aggressive anticommunist, Senator Eugene McCarthy famously lost faith with the Democratic party over Vietnam. His stunning challenge to Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire primary inspired young liberals and was one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history. But the 1968 election ultimately brought Richard Nixon and the Republican Party to power, irrevocably shifting the country's political landscape to the right for decades to come.

Dominic Sandbrook traces one of the most remarkable and significant lives in postwar politics, a career marked by both courage and arrogance. Sandbrook draws on extensive new research - including interviews with McCarthy himself - to show convincingly how Eugene McCarthy's political experience embodies the larger decline of American liberalism after World War II. These were tumultuous times in American politics, and Sandbrook vividly captures the drama and historical significance through his intimate portrait of a singularly interesting man at the heart of it all.

Échantillon de lecture
Chapter One
The Watkins Wonder

Eugene Joseph McCarthy was born in the small town of Watkins, Minnesota, on 29 March 1916. Although he was half German by blood, McCarthy always presented himself as an Irishman, relishing his frequent trips to Ireland and long conversations about Irish literature over a glass of whisky. His mother's parents were in fact German Catholics, while his father's family was Irish. His paternal grandparents, Michael McCarthy and Mary Harbinson, hailed from County Cork and County Antrim respectively; they had met in Quebec and moved to Minnesota in the 1870s…