Eugene McCarthy

Mccarthy, Eugene Joseph - 1916–, U.S. political leader, b. Watkins, Minn. He served (1942–46) as a technical assistant for military intelligence during World War II and then taught (1946–49) at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. As a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–59) and the Senate (1959–71), McCarthy gained a reputation Read More...

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The Year of the People
by Eugene J. McCarthy. 340 pgs.

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I, We, They

1: The Call to Politics

2: Just a Little More

3: Count the Bodies

5: Spring Came Early

6: The President Drops Out

7: No Man's Land

8: Good and Bad Signs

9: The Oregon Trail

10: California: They

11: The Great Delegate Hunt

12: Chicago: The Politics of Chaos

13: The Choice

14: Poets and Politicians

15: America is Hard to See

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Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Appendix 6

Appendix 7

Appendix 8

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Editor's Note Eugene J. Mccarthy: A Biographical Sketch
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A Liberal Answer to the Conservative Challenge
by Eugene J. McCarthy. 128 pgs.

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Introduction THE BANNER YET WAVES

Part I THE SCALES OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Chapter 1 Taxes and the Quest for Equity

Chapter 2 Myths of Federal Financing

Chapter 3 The Common Stake

Part II OF PAYROLLS AND POVERTY

Chapter 2 The Real Right to Work

Chapter 2 The Real Right to Work

Chapter 1 Ups and Downs on the Farm

Part III The Responsibilities of Responsible Government

Chapter 2 Health for the Elderly

Chapter 3 The Keystone In Freedom's Arch

Chapter 4 Freedom to Be Equal

Chapter 5 The Politics of Procedure

Part IV Liberal vs. Conservative: Case Histories

Chapter 2 Fdic: "Subversive To Sound Economics"

Chapter 3 Rea: "Socialism And Russianism"

Chapter 4 Tva: "The Mudholes Of Tennessee"

Chapter 1 The Tribulations of Trade

Part V MIXING IN THE MODERN WORLD
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Nonfinancial Economics: The Case for Shorter Hours of Work
by Eugene McCarthy, William McGaughey. 238 pgs.

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This book is written in support of proposals to reduce worktime in order to improve employment opportunities. The authors, both of whom have been deeply involved in shorter workweek policy debates, argue that the failure of the U.S. to enact shorter workweek legislation when it was first proposed in the late 1950s was a significant policy mistake. They argue further that reduced work hours are an effective means to full employment, improved income distribution, and a stronger consumer market--in addition to promising a better life to the contemporary American family.

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Introduction

I: An Economic and Political View: Unemployment and the Economics of Waste

1: The Bankruptcy of U.S. Employment Policy

2: The Productivity Factor

3: The Employment Factor

4: The Hours Factor

5: Output: Useful or Waste

6: Some Common Varieties of Waste

7: Shaking the Waste Out of This Economy

8: An Economy Built on Money and Debt

9: Micro and Macro Effects of Reduced Hours

10: International Work-Sharing

II: Historical and Theogical Views

11: A Short History of Working Hours

12: Work, Leisure, Philosophy, Ideology, and Their Perversions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors
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The Hard Years: A Look at Contemporary America and American Institutions
by Eugene J. McCarthy. 229 pgs.

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Introduction by Tom Wicker

Preface

Part I: Institutions

1: Toward a More Responsible Presidency

2: The Vice President as Crown Prince

3: Changes in the Congress

4: The Courts, the Last Appeal

5: Court of Ideas

6: A Kind Word for the Bureaucrats

7: A Kind Word for the Military

8: A Warning About the Military Establishment

9: The Cia and the Inner Ring

10: The Corporations

11: The Universities

12: The Democratic and Republican Parties

13: Alternatives to the Major Parties

Part II: Operations

14: A Hard Look at the Primaries

15: Personality Cults

16: The Cult of the Expert

17: A Good and Becoming Exit

18: Listen to Mr. Parkinson

19: The Sst: Object Lesson in Dynamics of Opposition

20: The Lobbyists

21: Grant Park, Chicago

22: Marching on Washington

23: Changing America

Part III: Principles

24: Innocence in Politics

25: Language and Politics

26: Poetry and War

27: Ares

28: Intellectuals and Politics

29: Out of Phase

30: Trouble in the Economics Community

31: Constitutional Amendments

32: Five Systems of Justice

33: The Enemies List

34: Censorship

Part IV: A Good Person is Not So Hard to Find

35: John Bennett

36: Emerson Hynes

37: John Kennedy

38: Dan and Doris Kimball

39: Robert Lowell

40: Wayne Morse

41: Lewis Mumford

42: Eleanor Roosevelt

43: Frank Rosenblatt

44: Adlai Stevenson

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Index
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Other Things and the Aardvark
by Eugene McCarthy. 84 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

I Persons

Ii Places

III

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America Revisited: 150 Years after Tocqueville
by Eugene J. McCarthy. 258 pgs.

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Books by Eugene J. McCarthy

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Introduction: Meditating Great Projects

1: Indians: To Be Free

2: Black Americans: Great Misfortunes

3: Prisoners: Nobody Thinks of Rendering Them Better

4: Religion: The Nation with the Soul of a Church

5: The Economy: What Is One to Expect?

6: The Law: Hidden at the Bottom of a Lawyers Soul

7: The Media: And That's the Way It Is

8: Voluntary Associations: The Most Natural Right of Man

9: Politics: A Sort of Tumult

10: The Presidency: Make the Gentleman in the White House Take Down His Flag

11: Democracy in America: An Overview

Source Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Clean for Gene: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential Campaign
by George Rising. 160 pgs.

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Most scholars agree that 1968 was a watershed in U.S. political history. And Senator Eugene McCarthy's anti-Vietnam War presidential campaign was a main catalyst for the year's events. McCarthy's near upset of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the first presidential primary in New Hampshire dramatically illustrated the divisions within the Democratic party, brought Senator Robert F. Kennedy into the race, led to Johnson's withdrawal, and undercut the radical New Left antiwar movement. This work has two main purposes. First, it seeks to delineate Eugene McCarthy's conservative-liberal ideology and, in so doing, contrast it to the ideology of the New Left antiwar movement. And second, it seeks to describe the historical context, causes, important events, and effects of McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign.

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TO MY PARENTS

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Preface

Introduction: "Dump Johnson"

Chapter 1 Eugene Mccarthy and Conservative Liberalism

Chapter 2 the Early New Lefts Critique of Liberalism

Chapter 3 Vietnam, Counterculture, and "New Politics"

Chapter 4 "'Mccarthy for President"

Epilogue: 1968 and Beyond

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism ("The McCarthy Misconnection" begins on p. 278)
by William H. Chafe. 556 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

1: Secrets

2: Halcyon Days

3: Friendship

4: The NSA Years: the Apprenticeship of an Anti-Communist Liberal

5: Seeking a Place

6: The South Africa Years

7: Stanford and Civil Rights: 1961-1963

8: Mississippi Freedom Summer

9: The Personal Side of the Political

10: The Political Side of the Personal

11: Dump Johnson

12: 1968: Year of Triumph, Year of Tragedy

13: Being a Congressman

14: One Last Chance

15: Coming Apart

16: A Second Act?

Epilogue

Notes

Index
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Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention (Information on Eugene McCarthy in Chap. 4 "'On to Chicago': Countdown to August")
by Frank Kusch. 214 pgs.

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Did the police lose control of themselves in dealing with demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention? Or were they simply men who saw themselves as protecting their city from the forces of revolution? Kusch contends that Chicago's police were more than unthinking "thugs," that they had, in effect, become a counterculture, even more so than the people they ended up attacking. From Polish and Irish working class backgrounds, these men felt they represented a time gone by, a different way of life. The world they found themselves in during August of 1968 was an almost alien environment. Analyzing interviews of men who were on the streets and examining in-depth their actions and the reasons behind them, Kusch challenges traditional thinking on this pivotal event.

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Preface

Chapter 1: “an American City”: the Roots of a Creed

Chapter 2: “freaks, Cowards, and Bastards”: the War at Home

Chapter 3: “what's America Coming To?”: January-June 1968

Chapter 4: “on to Chicago”: Countdown to August

Chapter 5: “a Perfect Mess”: Convention Week

Chapter 6: “terrorists from Out of Town”: Fallout in the Second City

Chapter 7: “half the Power of God”: Chicago in '68 Revisited

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam (Information on Eugene McCarthy begins in Chap. 36 "Everyone Has Turned into a Dove: 1968")
by Robert Mann. 824 pgs.

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Introduction

Prologue That Little Pipsqueak February 1965

Part One the Roots of War

Chapter I the "Loss" of China 1949-1950

Chapter 2 Paralyzed with Fear 1950

Chapter 3 Korea 1950

Chapter 4 the Part-Time Isolationists 1951

Part Two the Initial Descent

Chapter 5 Nothing but a Grim Joke 1945-1950

Chapter 6 the Keystone in Southeast Asia 1951

Chapter 7 a Great Crusade 1951-1952

Chapter 8 Pouring Money Down a Rat Hole 1953

Chapter 9 You Shall Not Fight Unaided 1953

Chapter 10 La Guerre Sale 1954

Chapter 11 We Cannot Engage in Active War 1954

Chapter 12 Diplomacy of Bluster and Retreat 1954

Chapter 13 the Best Available Prime Minister 1954-1955

Chapter 14 This is Our Offspring 1955-1956

Chapter 15 a Blank Grant of Power 1957-1958

Chapter 16 Nothing More Than a Mirage 1957-1960

Part Three into the Morass

Chapter 17 Vietnam is the Place 1961

Chapter 18 You'Re Just Crazier Than Hell 1961

Chapter 19 a World of Illusion 1962

Chapter 20 the Beginning of the Beginning 1962

Chapter 21 You Did Visit the Same Country, Didn't You? 1963

Chapter 22 a Stone Rolling Downhill 1963

Part Four Escalation and Deception

Chapter 23 Get In, Get Out, or Get off 1963-1964

Chapter 24 the Damn Worst Mess I Ever Saw 1964

Chapter 25 Aggression Unchallenged is Aggression Unleashed 1964

Chapter 26 No Wider War 1964-1965

Chapter 27 Harder Choices 1965

Chapter 28 We Are Very Deep Already 1965

Chapter 29 This Could Be a Quagmire 1965

Chapter 30 Sliding Farther into the Morass of War 1965

Chapter 3 1 Let Them Know They Are in a War 1966

Chapter 32 Once Our Flag is Committed 1966

Chapter 33 Where Does It All End? 1966-1967

Chapter 34 There is a Rot in the Fabric 1967

Chapter 35 a Very Near Thing 1968

Chapter 36 Everyone Has Turned into a Dove 1968

Chapter 37 the Vice President Has Very Few Guns 1968

Part Five Nixon's War

Chapter 38 Win the Peace 1969

Chapter 39 This Chamber Reeks of Blood 1970

Chapter 40 We'Ll Bomb the Bastards off the Earth 1970-1971

Chapter 41 Peace is at Hand 1972

Chapter 42 a Spirit of Doubt and Contrition 1972-1975

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author
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The Anxious Years: America in the Vietnam-Watergate Era (Information on Eugene McCarthy begins in "The Doves Move In" on p. 17)
by Kim McQuaid. 350 pgs.

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The Anxious Years: America in the Vietnam-Watergate Era

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Preface

Prologue: America the Fortunate

Part One: 1968: Things Fall Apart

Part Two: Vietnam, Incorporated

Part Three: The New Left and Afterward

Part Four: Watergate

Epilogue: Learning Lessons, Repeating Mistakes

Notes

Index
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Historical Dictionary of the 1960s
by Samuel Freeman, James S. Olson. 554 pgs.

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Few eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. When J.F.K. became president in 1960, the U.S. was the hope of the world. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home wondered whether the U.S. was really the "land of the free and the home of the brave." This book takes an encyclopedic look at the decade--at the individuals who shaped the era, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the youth rebellion. It covers the political, military, social, cultural, religious, economic, and diplomatic topics that made the 1960s a unique decade in U.S. history.

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Chronology of the 1960s

Selected Bibliography

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