Clean for Gene: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential Campaign

by George Rising

Most scholars agree that 1968 was a watershed in U.S. political history. And Senator Eugene McCarthy's anti-Vietnam War presidential campaign was a main catalyst for the year's events. McCarthy's near upset of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the first presidential primary in New Hampshire dramatically illustrated the divisions within the Democratic party, brought Senator Robert F. Kennedy into the race, led to Johnson's withdrawal, and undercut the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275958418
• ISBN13: 9780275958411
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"