{"product_id":"two-suns-of-the-southwest-lyndon-johnson-barry-goldwater-and-the-1964-battle-between-liberalism-and-conservatism-american-presidential-elections-9780700627950","title":"Two Suns of the Southwest: Lyndon Johnson  Barry Goldwater  and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism (American Presidential Elections)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver time the presidential election of 1964 has come to be seen as a generational shift  a defining moment in which Americans deliberated between two distinctly different visions for the future. In its juxtaposition of these divergent visions  Two Suns of the Southwest is the first full account of this critical election and its legacy for US politics.  The 1964 election  in Nancy Beck Youngs telling  was a contest between two men of the Southwest  each with a very different idea of what the Southwest was and what America should be. Barry Goldwater  the Republican senator from Arizona  came to represent a nostalgic  idealized past  a preservation of traditional order  while Lyndon B. Johnson  the Democratic incumbent from Texas  looked boldly and hopefully toward an expansive  liberal future of increased opportunity. Thus  as we see in Two Suns of the Southwest  the election was also a showdown between liberalism and conservatism  an election whose outcome would echo throughout the rest of the century. Young explores how demographics  namely the rise of the Sunbelt  factored into the framing and reception of these competing ideas. Her work situates Johnsons Sunbelt liberalism as universalist  designed to create space for all Americans; Goldwaters Sunbelt conservatism was far more restrictive  at least with regard to what the federal government should do. In this respect the election became a debate about individual rights versus legislated equality as priorities of the federal government. Young explores all the cultural and political elements and events that figured in this narrative  allowing Johnson to unite disaffected Republicans with independents and Democrats in a winning coalition.  On a final note Young connects the 1964 election to the current state of our democracy  explaining the irony whereby the winning candidates vision has grown stale while the losing candidates has become much more central to American politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651897090101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0700627952","price":80.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700627950.jpg?v=1781844354","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/two-suns-of-the-southwest-lyndon-johnson-barry-goldwater-and-the-1964-battle-between-liberalism-and-conservatism-american-presidential-elections-9780700627950","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}