By Joshua M. Glasser
No skeletons have been damn in his closet, Thomas Eagleton guaranteed George McGovern’s political director. yet simply eighteen days later—after a sequence of harmful public revelations and feverish behind-the-scenes maneuverings—McGovern rescinded his endorsement of his Democratic vice-presidential operating mate, and Eagleton withdrew from the price tag. This interesting ebook is the 1st to discover the entire tale in the back of Eagleton's upward thrust and precipitous fall as a countrywide candidate.
Within days of Eagleton's nomination, a couple of nameless telephone calls delivered to mild his background of hospitalizations for “nervous exhaustion and melancholy” and previous therapy with electroshock remedy. The revelation rattled the crusade and put McGovern's association below severe public and media scrutiny. Joshua Glasser investigates a crusade in disarray and explores the views of the campaign’s key avid gamers, how judgements have been made and who made them, how cultural attitudes towards psychological disorder trained the obstacle, and the way Eagleton's and McGovern's own objectives formed the process events.
Drawing on own interviews with McGovern, crusade supervisor Gary Hart, political director Frank Mankiewicz, and dozens of alternative individuals in and out the McGovern and Eagleton camps—as good as wide unpublished crusade records—Glasser captures the political and human drama of Eagleton's short candidacy. Glasser additionally bargains sharp insights into the the US of 1972—mired in conflict, frightened concerning the financial system, ambivalent approximately civil rights.
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