Daniel K. Williams is professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right and Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade.
To understand current US politics, look to the election of 1976.
That's the argument that Daniel K. Williams makes - quite
convincingly - in this well-researched, engaging account of a
crucial presidential race that often gets overlooked." - Matthew
Pressman, assistant professor of journalism, Seton Hall
University
"Here is the definitive 'making of the president, 1976.' Based on
extensive archival research and written in clear, concise prose,
this book explains why Jimmy Carter won the election and why the
electoral map was never the same after." - Edward Berkowitz, author
of Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the
Seventies
"The presidential election of 1976 changed modern American politics
in every conceivable way. Daniel Williams tells this important tale
with prose that crackles and with the pace of a political thriller.
Ford, Dole, Carter, and Mondale come alive for the reader, and the
analysis of their decision-making offers a real contribution to the
historiography of the presidency in the 1970s. This will remain the
definitive study of the election of 1976 for some time to come." -
John Robert Greene, author of I Like Ike: The Presidential Election
of 1952
"Daniel Williams's study of the 1976 presidential election goes
well beyond previous scholarship. Whereas many scholars have
written about 'how Jimmy won,' in this thorough and insightful book
Williams argues that the election reflected and encouraged
transformation of the Democratic and Republican parties, ironically
not in directions favored by the two contenders who would turn out
to be 'the last of the moderates.' Williams is convincing in his
thesis that this was the last of the New Deal elections that
divided along regional and class lines and foreshadowed elections
to come in which parties divided according to values-based
ideologies." - Marjorie J. Spruill, author of Divided We Stand: The
Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized
American Politics
"In this well-written and well-researched account, Dan Williams
finds the origins of our polarized politics in the presidential
campaign of 1976. The Election of the Evangelical shows not just
how Americans put the first born-again Christian into the White
House but also how our entire political system was reborn - from
the new importance of presidential primaries and the new influence
of pressure groups at both ends of the spectrum to the larger trend
to 'outsider' politicians like Jimmy Carter." - Kevin M. Kruse,
coauthor of Fault Lines: A History of the United States since
1974
"In this meticulously researched, sharply argued, and briskly
written book, Dan Williams revisits the 1976 presidential election
- a surprising, eventful contest that pioneered many of the
features of modern presidential campaigns and anticipated the
polarized cultural politics of the twenty-first century. With
judicious insight, Williams reconstructs Jimmy Carter's path to the
White House and the enduring impact of his victory." - Bruce J.
Schulman, William E. Huntington Professor of History, Boston
University
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