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Deplorable
2021
Overview
Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for
the presidency, can be nasty-very nasty. And while we would like to
believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults,
invective, and yes, even violence have characterized US electoral
politics since the republic's early days. By examining the
political discourse around nine particularly deplorable elections,
Mary E. Stuckey seeks to explain why.
From the contest that pitted Thomas Jefferson against John Adams
in 1800 through 2020's vicious, chaotic matchup between Donald
Trump and Joe Biden, Stuckey documents the cycle of despicable
discourse in presidential campaigns. Looking beyond the character
and the ideology of the candidates, Stuckey explores the broader
political, economic, and cultural milieus in which each took place.
In doing so, she reveals the conditions that exacerbate and enable
our worst political instincts, producing discourses that incite
factions, target members of the polity, encourage undemocratic
policy, and actively work against the national democratic
project.
Keenly analytical and compulsively readable, Deplorable
provides context for the 2016 and 2020 elections, revealing them as
part of a cyclical-and perhaps downward-spiraling-pattern in
American politics. Deplorable offers more than a
comparison of the worst of our elections. It helps us understand
these shameful and disappointing moments in our political history,
leaving one important question: Can we avoid them in the
future?
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
/ Democracy -- United States -- History
/ Election
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / United States / General
/ J Davis
/ Jim Crow
/ LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
/ Presidents -- United States -- Election -- History
/ racism
/ Rhetoric
/ Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
/ Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.GBC1G5224
ISBN
0271091762, 9780271091761, 0271092017, 9780271092010
