Brutal Campaign
How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics
By Robert L. Fleegler
354 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 16 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7337-0
Published: April 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7336-3
Published: April 2023 -
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Published: March 2023 -
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Robert L. Fleegler’s narrative history of the 1988 election draws from untapped archival sources and revealing oral history interviews to uncover just how consequential this moment was for American politics. Identifying the seeds of political issues to come, Fleegler delivers an engaging review of an election that set a template for the political dynamics that define our lives to this day
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Robert L. Fleegler is associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi.
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"Academics . . . have largely ignored the [1988 election], focusing instead on the more significant and realigning elections of 1980 and 1992. . . . Fleegler sets out to change that view, and in doing so offers an essential reassessment of the neglected contest."—Jacobin
“A riveting, fast-paced account of the 1988 presidential election. . . . Highly recommended.”—CHOICE
“The author skillfully weaves the many threads to create a ‘You Are There’ behind the scenes sense. . . . The volume provides authoritative coverage of a little studied election.”—North Carolina Historical Review
“Brutal Campaign is a careful, systematic, and balanced, indeed prudent, account, replete with insight and thoughtful reflection.”—Journal of American History
"A welcomed and refreshing corrective to the current historiography. This is good old-fashioned political history."—Steven M. Gillon, University of Oklahoma
"In a skillfully plotted blow-by-blow account of the well- and lesser-known facets of the 1988 presidential race, Fleegler contextualizes the election's infamous gaffes and ignominious events to reveal what they portended about the political dynamics of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."—Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College