Taking sides
Subtitle: a personal view of America from Kennedy to Nixon to Kennedy
By: [by] Richard J. Whalen. With an introd. by Robert D. Novak.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
Table of contents: title: Politics without purpose: Nixon: politics as conspiracy. Kennedy: politics as illusion. The triumph of media politics. Cultural politics.; title: Alternatives: Barry Goldwater and the new American conservatism. Crossing the line I: John Lindsay and charisma at City Hall. Crossing the line II: John Connally and the emerging corporate state. Scoop Jackson: the last new frontiersman.; title: What happened, U.S.A.?: Migrations and escapes. The automobile-centered society. Who owns America? The U.S., Japan, and the new economic era. The second cold war. The Kennedy legacy.