Nancy Beck Young, "Two Suns of the Southwest" (U Kansas Press, 2019)

New Books in American Studies · Jul 10, 2020 · 1h 9m

What does the 1964 presidential election have to teach us about party dynamics, civil rights and polarization? While many scholars have treated the dramatic candidates and characters such as Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater, Nancy Beck Young’s Two Suns of the Southwest: Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism (University of Kansas Press, 2019) is the first comprehensive political history of the 1964 election. Y oung (Professor of History, University of Houston) interrogates the Eisenhower 1950s to understand both Goldwater and Johnson as…