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1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one wa

Lyndon Johnson made a life or death bet during his Presidential term, and lost. Intent upon fighting an extended war against a determined foe, he gambled that A

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"In Fatal Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the Vietnam War and Nixon's reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president's darkest secret"--Jacket.

The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the e