Table of Contents
Introduction
1) The Incumbent Under Attack From Both Sides
- Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Rider takes on the Robber Barons –
1904
- Harry Truman fights a Three-Front War as Progressives and Dixiecrats
Desert - 1948
- Jimmy Carter Falls to Ted Kennedy, John Anderson and Ronald Reagan –
1980
- Louisiana Reformer Buddy Roemer Faces a Crook and the KKK In the Big
Easy - 1991
2) The Opposition Candidate
Reaches Out
- Woodrow Wilson: The Progressive Beats the Party Bosses – 1912
- John F. Kennedy: An Idealist Without Illusions claims the Cold
Warrior Mantle - 1960
- Richard Nixon PLedges to “Bring us Together” – 1968
- Bill Clinton Leads the Democrats out of the wilderness and into the
White House - 1992
3) The Primary Challeng:
Reformers vs. the Old Guard
- California Governor Earl Warren: Non-Partisan Wins Both Primaries -
1946
- Eisenhower vs. Robert Taft: Internationalism vs. Isolationism - 1952
- Rockefeller vs. Goldwater: Liberal Republican vs. an advocate of
Extremism - 1964
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan vs. Bella Abzug: The Neo-Con vs. the New
Left - 1976
4) Declarations of Independence
and the Third Party Challenge
- Senator Margaret Chase Smith: The Lady from maine Stands up to Joe
McCarthy - 1950
- Senator Edward Brooke: Stuck in the Middle of the Civil Rights
Movement - 1973
- Radical Centrists: The Independent Governors of the 1990sGovernor
Lowell Weicker of Connecticut - 1990
- Governor Angus King of Maine - 1994
- Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota - 1998
- Rudy Giuliani: Independent Reformer Restores the Glory to Gotham –
1997
5) Election 2000: The
Compassionate Conservative vs. A Practical Idealist and The Straight
Talk Express
Conclusion
Excerpted from Independent Nation by John P. Avlon
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