Still Seeing Red

Name: Still Seeing Red
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Through a text which is complemented by extensive polling data, this work explores how the Cold War moulded the internal politics of the United States. It takes readers through the Cold War period, describing its effect in redrawing the electoral map after World War II. > In Still Seeing Red, John Kenneth White explores how the Cold War molded the internal politics of the United States. In a powerful narrative backed by a rich treasure trove of polling data, White takes the reader through the Cold War years, describing its effect in redrawing the electoral map as we came to know it after World War II. The primary beneficiaries of the altered landscape were reinvigorated Republicans who emerged after five successive defeats to tar the Democrats with the ?soft on communism? epithet. A new nationalist Republican party?whose Cold War prescription for winning the White House was copyrighted to Dwight Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan?attained primacy in pe