The election of the evangelical : Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the presidential contest of 1976 /

From the perspective of the early twenty-first century, the 1976 election looks like an odd anomaly, a bygone moment when the evangelical candidate with strong support from his fellow Southern Baptists was a Democrat and the Republican candidate was a social moderate whose wife loudly proclaimed her...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Daniel K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2020]
Series:American presidential elections.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Two-Party Chaos
  • The Democratic Field in 1974
  • Jimmy Carter Enters the Race
  • The Republicans
  • The Democratic Primaries
  • Ford v. Reagan
  • Nominating Carter
  • The Republican Convention
  • Carter Stumbles over the Cultural Issues
  • Ford v. Carter: The Final Weeks
  • Why Carter Won
  • What Happened to Carter's Coalition?