1968 United States presidential election Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Further reading== *{{cite book| last=Ambrose| first=Stephen E.| author-link = Stephen E. Ambrose | title=Nixon: The Education of a Politician: 1962β1972| url=https://archive.org/details/nixon00ambr| url-access=registration| year=1987}} * Boomhower, Ray E. "Fighting the Good Fight: John Bartlow Martin and Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Presidential Campaign." ''Indiana Magazine of History'' (2020) 116#1 pp 1β29. *Brown, Stuart Gerry. ''The Presidency on Trial: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Campaign and Afterwards.'' U. Press of Hawaii, 1972. 155 pp. *Burner, David, and West, Thomas R. ''The Torch Is Passed: The Kennedy Brothers and American Liberalism.'' (1984). 307 pp. *{{cite book| last=Carter| first=Dan T.| author-link = Dan T. Carter | title=The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics| year=1995| isbn=978-0-8071-2597-7}} *{{cite book| first1=Lewis| last1=Chester| last2=Hodgson| first2=Godfrey| last3=Page| first3=Bruce| title=An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968| publisher=Viking Press| year=1969| isbn=978-0-670-11991-2| url=https://archive.org/details/americanmelodram00ches}} * Coffey, Justin P. ''Spiro Agnew and the Rise of the Republican Right'' (ABC-CLIO, 2015). * Cohen, Michael A. ''American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division'' (Oxford UP, 2016) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/019977756X/ excerpt] and [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54162 online review] * {{cite journal | last1 = Converse | first1 = Philip E. | author-link = Philip Converse | author-link2 = Warren Miller (political scientist) | last2 = Miller | first2 = Warren E. | last3 = Rusk | first3 = Jerrold G. | last4 = Wolfe | first4 = Arthur C. | year = 1969 | title = Continuity And Change In American Politics: Parties and Issues in the 1968 Election | journal = American Political Science Review | volume = 63 | issue = 4| pages = 1083β1105 | jstor=1955073 | doi=10.2307/1955073| s2cid = 54762012 }} * {{cite book| last=Gould| first=Lewis L.| title=1968: The Election that Changed America| url=https://archive.org/details/1968electionthat0000goul| url-access=registration| publisher=Ivan R. Dee| year=1993| isbn=978-1-56663-010-8}} * [[Arthur Herzog|Herzog, Arthur]]. ''McCarthy for President'' (1969) * {{cite book| last=Farber| first=David| title=Chicago '68| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year=1988| isbn=978-0-226-23800-5| url=https://archive.org/details/chicago6800farb}} * Jamieson, Patrick E. "Seeing the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency through the March 31, 1968 Withdrawal Speech." ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'' Vol 29#1 1999 pp. 134+ * Johnstone, Andrew, and Andrew Priest, eds. ''US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton'' (2017) pp 177β202. [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/50578/ online] * [[Kimball, Warren F.]] "The Election of 1968." ''Diplomatic History'' 2004 28(4): 513β528. {{ISSN|0145-2096}} Fulltext online in SwetsWise, Ingenta and Ebsco. Comments by others at pp. 563β576; reply, p. 577. * {{cite journal| last=Kogin| first=Michael| title=Wallace and the Middle Class| journal=Public Opinion Quarterly| volume=30| issue=1 | pages=98|date=Spring 1966| doi = 10.1086/267384 }} * [[Walter LaFeber|LaFerber, Walter]]. ''The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election'' (2005) short survey * Lesher, Stephan. ''George Wallace: American Populist.'' (1994). 587 pp. * Lichtenstein, Nelson, ed. ''Political Profiles: The Johnson Years''. 1976. short biographies of 400+ key politicians. * Longley, Kyle. ''LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval'' (2018) [https://www.amazon.com/LBJs-1968-Politics-Presidency-Americas/dp/1107193036/ excerpt] * {{cite journal | last1 = Mayer | first1 = Jeremy D. | s2cid = 143272460 | year = 2002 | title = Nixon Rides the Backlash to Victory: Racial Politics in the 1968 Presidential Campaign | journal = Historian | volume = 64 | issue = 3| pages = 351β366 | doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2002.tb01487.x}} * Nelson, Michael. ''Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government'' (University Press of Kansas; 2014) 360 pages * Nelson, Michael. "The Historical Presidency: Lost Confidence: The Democratic Party, the Vietnam War, and the 1968 Election." ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'' 48.3 (2018): 570β585. * O'Mara, Margaret. ''Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century'' (2015), compares 1912, 1932, 1968, 1992 in terms of social, economic, and political history * {{cite book| last=Richardson| first=Darcy G.| title=A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign| year=2002| isbn=978-0-595-23699-2}} * {{cite book| last=Rising| first=George| title=Clean for Gene: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential Campaign| publisher=Praeger Publishers| year=1997| isbn=978-0-275-95841-1}} * {{cite book| last=Savage| first=Sean J.| title=JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party| publisher=SUNY Albany Press| year=2004| isbn=978-0-7914-6169-3| url=https://archive.org/details/jfklbjdemocratic00sava_0}} * {{cite book| last=Schlesinger| first=Arthur M. Jr.| title=Robert Kennedy and His Times| url=https://archive.org/details/robertkenn00schl| url-access=registration| publisher=Houghton Mifflin| year=1978| isbn=978-0-395-24897-3}} * Schumacher, Michael. ''The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul'' (U of Minnesota Press, 2018) 540 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54162 online review] * Shesol, Jeff. ''Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade'' (1997) * Small, Melvin. "The Election of 1968", ''Diplomatic History'' (2004) 28#4 pp 513β528, on foreign-policy issues [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24914873 online] * Solberg, Carl. ''Hubert Humphrey'' (2003), scholarly biography [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0873514734 excerpt and text search] * ''Time.'' "Wallace's Army: The Coalition Of Frustration", [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412144104/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902424,00.html ''Time'' October 18, 1968] * {{cite book| last1=Unger| first1=Irwin| last2=Unger| first2=Debi| title=Turning Point: 1968| publisher=Scribner's| year=1988| isbn=978-0-684-18696-2| url=https://archive.org/details/turningpoint196800unge}} * Woods, Randall. ''LBJ: Architect of American Ambition'' (2006) ===Primary sources=== * [[George Gallup|Gallup, George H.]], ed. ''The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935β1971''. 3 vols. Random House, 1972. press releases; * {{cite book| last=Humphrey| first=Hubert H.| title=The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics| url=https://archive.org/details/educationofpubli00hump| url-access=registration| publisher=Doubleday| year=1976| isbn=978-0-8166-1897-2}} * McCarthy, Eugene. ''The Year of the People'' (1969), memoir * {{cite book| last=McGinniss| first=Joe|author-link=Joe McGinniss| title=The Selling of the President 1968| url=https://archive.org/details/sellingofpresid00mcgi| url-access=registration| publisher=Trident Press| year=1969| isbn=978-0-671-82249-1}}; firsthand reporting * {{Cite book| first=Richard M.| last=Nixon| author-link=Richard Nixon| year=1978| title=RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon| isbn=978-0-671-70741-5}} [https://archive.org/details/rnmemoirsofricha00nixo online] * {{cite book| last=White| first=Theodore H.| title=The Making of the Presidentβ1968| publisher=Atheneum| year=1969| isbn=978-0-224-61796-3| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/makingofpresiden0000whit_z6y4}}, famous report by American journalist * Chester, Edward W. ''A guide to political platforms'' (1977) [https://archive.org/details/guidetopolitical0000ches online] * Porter, Kirk H., and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. 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