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Aram Goudsouzian is a professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Memphis. He's appeared on Book Talk before to discuss his books, King of the Court about NBA legend Bill Russell, Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear, and The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America. Today we'll be talking about his latest project, Man on a Mission:James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss, an illustrated graphic history of James Meredith's attempts to attend The University of Mississippi in the early 1960s during Jim Crow. The illustrator for the book is Bill Murray, and the editor is Vijay Shah, and it is published by The University of Arkansas Press.   

A discussion with Aram Goudsouzian, Professor of History at University of Memphis, and Charles McKinney, Professor of Africana Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. McKinney is the author of numerous essays on African American history and the book Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina, published in 2010, and is currently at work on a book titled Losing the Party of Lincoln: George Washington Lee and the Struggle for the Soul of the Republican Party, which explores the life and work of George Washington Lee, an African American Republican operative and civil rights activist who lived in Memphis in the middle of the twentieth century. Goudsouzian is the author of five books, including most recently Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear, published in 2014, and 2019's The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America.Together, Goudsouzian and McKinney edited the 2018 collection An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee, published by University of Kentucky Press, which we discuss in this episode. 

Today we're traveling to Nixon's America with Dick! Join us for a discussion of Checkers and other presidential dogs, Rose Mary Woods, "win a date with. . . " contests, as well as a fun digression into what exactly counts as a "lifetime supply" of tampons. Sources: Win a Date With. . .  Alanna Nash, "My Date WIth Davy Jones," Rolling Stone (8 March 2012). https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/my-date-with-davy-jones-113220/amp/ Sharon Marcus, "Intimacy," The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc772z0.7 Perry Nodelman, "Teaching Girls about Men: Attitudes Toward Maleness in Teen Magazines," Studies in Popular Culture 9:1 (1986): 103-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23412904 Melissa Loseby, "That time I entered a contest to win a date with John Stamos," HelloGiggles (13 October 2016). https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/nostalgia/win-a-date-with-john-stamos/ Alison Martino, "KHJ, L.A.'s Coolest AM Radio Station, Is Basically a Background Actor in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"" Los Angeles Magazine (29 July 2019). https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/khj-radio-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/ Checkers: David Williams, "Inappropriate/d Others or, The Difficulty of Being a Dog," TDR 51:1 (Spring 2007): 92-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4492737 Diana C. Mutz, "The Dog that Didn't Bark: the Role of Canines in the 2008 Campaign," PS: Political Science and Politics 43:4 (October 2010): 707-712. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40927039 Thomas Hauser, Thomas Hauser on Sports: Remembering the Journey (University of Arkansas Press, 2013). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1ffjhwf.21 Aram Goudsouzian, "The Loser," The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America p. 15-28 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469651118_goudsouzian Joshua M. Glasser, The Eighteen-Day Running Mate: McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis (Yale University Press, 2012). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkqgb.18 Stephen F. Knott, "The Road to Degradation," The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal p.175-205 (University Press of Kansas, 2019). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxbpfcr.12 Ann-Janine Morey, "The Gaze Outside the Frame," Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs p.77-102 (Penn State University Press, 2014). https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp9pj.8 Rick Perlstein (ed.), "The "Checkers Speech" (September 23, 1952)" Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents (Princeton University Press, 2008). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sg9w.12 "Nixon's dogs" picture https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photos/nixons-dogs "Top Dogs at the White House" https://www.whitehousehistory.org/white-house-pets/top-dogs-at-the-white-house Laddie Boy picture: https://library.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/cache/5017/Main%20Index/Events/1603.t56d0927d.m1200.tif.pv.xHdx6j-_JGIfu6T1n.jpg Yuki picture: https://library.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/cache/5017/Main%20Index/Presidents/Lyndon%20B%20Johnson/1198.t578cd2a1.m1200.tif.pv.x6gXmPhumm5B2GOwx.jpg Timeline of the Watergate Scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 The 18 1/2 Minute Gap: Alison Lynn and Lauren Effron, "The Watergate Tapes' Infamous 18.5 Minute Gap and Nixon Secretary's Unusual Explanation for It." ABC News. Available at https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/watergate-tapes-infamous-185-minute-gap-nixons-secretarys/story?id=47926329 Photo of Rose Mary Woods, The Watergate Files, Gerald R Ford Presidential Library. Available at https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/watergate_files/content.php?section=3&page=a&zoom=2 David Kopel, "The Missing 18 1/2 Minutes: Presidential Destruction of Incriminating Evidence," Washington Post. Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/16/the-missing-18-12-minutes-presidential-destruction-of-incriminating-evidence/ Rose Mary Woods: Francis Wilkinson, "Nixon's Real Enforcer," New York Times Magazine. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/magazine/nixons-real-enforcer.html Film Background: Sharon Waxman, "Generation X's Tricky Dick," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1999/08/01/generation-xs-tricky-dick/b5b70d4d-b50d-453d-b9ef-ea3af28dacac/ Dick, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Woodward and Bernstein: Todd S. Purdum, "Three Decades Later, "Woodstein" Takes a Victory Lap," New York Times, 2005, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/politics/three-decades-later-woodstein-takes-a-victory-lap.html  

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the characters who shaped that race in The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (UNC Press, 2019). Goudsouzian argues the campaign marked the end of the “Old Politics” of party machines, and the rise of the “New Politics” in which candidates more robustly engaged voters. And it marked the decline of the Democratic coalition of white Southerners and northern urbanites, setting back progressivism and buoying conservatism. Goudsouzian gives readers in-depth portrayals of the motley collection of politicians who clashed that year, including Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace. As you read about the political and cultural divisions that rocked American in 1968, it won't be hard to detect parallels in our politics today.

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the characters who shaped that race in The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (UNC Press, 2019). Goudsouzian argues the campaign marked the end of the “Old Politics” of party machines, and the rise of the “New Politics” in which candidates more robustly engaged voters. And it marked the decline of the Democratic coalition of white Southerners and northern urbanites, setting back progressivism and buoying conservatism. Goudsouzian gives readers in-depth portrayals of the motley collection of politicians who clashed that year, including Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace. As you read about the political and cultural divisions that rocked American in 1968, it won't be hard to detect parallels in our politics today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the characters who shaped that race in The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (UNC Press, 2019). Goudsouzian argues the campaign marked the end of the “Old Politics” of party machines, and the rise of the “New Politics” in which candidates more robustly engaged voters. And it marked the decline of the Democratic coalition of white Southerners and northern urbanites, setting back progressivism and buoying conservatism. Goudsouzian gives readers in-depth portrayals of the motley collection of politicians who clashed that year, including Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace. As you read about the political and cultural divisions that rocked American in 1968, it won’t be hard to detect parallels in our politics today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the characters who shaped that race in The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (UNC Press, 2019). Goudsouzian argues the campaign marked the end of the “Old Politics” of party machines, and the rise of the “New Politics” in which candidates more robustly engaged voters. And it marked the decline of the Democratic coalition of white Southerners and northern urbanites, setting back progressivism and buoying conservatism. Goudsouzian gives readers in-depth portrayals of the motley collection of politicians who clashed that year, including Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace. As you read about the political and cultural divisions that rocked American in 1968, it won’t be hard to detect parallels in our politics today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the characters who shaped that race in The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (UNC Press, 2019). Goudsouzian argues the campaign marked the end of the “Old Politics” of party machines, and the rise of the “New Politics” in which candidates more robustly engaged voters. And it marked the decline of the Democratic coalition of white Southerners and northern urbanites, setting back progressivism and buoying conservatism. Goudsouzian gives readers in-depth portrayals of the motley collection of politicians who clashed that year, including Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace. As you read about the political and cultural divisions that rocked American in 1968, it won’t be hard to detect parallels in our politics today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the characters who shaped that race in The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (UNC Press, 2019). Goudsouzian argues the campaign marked the end of the “Old Politics” of party machines, and the rise of the “New Politics” in which candidates more robustly engaged voters. And it marked the decline of the Democratic coalition of white Southerners and northern urbanites, setting back progressivism and buoying conservatism. Goudsouzian gives readers in-depth portrayals of the motley collection of politicians who clashed that year, including Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace. As you read about the political and cultural divisions that rocked American in 1968, it won’t be hard to detect parallels in our politics today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the characters who shaped that race in The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (UNC Press, 2019). Goudsouzian argues the campaign marked the end of the “Old Politics” of party machines, and the rise of the “New Politics” in which candidates more robustly engaged voters. And it marked the decline of the Democratic coalition of white Southerners and northern urbanites, setting back progressivism and buoying conservatism. Goudsouzian gives readers in-depth portrayals of the motley collection of politicians who clashed that year, including Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace. As you read about the political and cultural divisions that rocked American in 1968, it won’t be hard to detect parallels in our politics today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Aram Goudsouzian is a professor of history at the University of Memphis. He has written biographies of Sidney Poitier and Bill Russell, as well as an in-depth look at the Civil Rights landmark Meredith March Against Fear. We have the second of our two part interview about his latest book, The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America, which is published by University of North Carolina Press. Today we'll be looking at the Democratic Party primaries and the path up to the general election.

Dr. Aram Goudsouzian is a professor of history at the University of Memphis. He has written biographies of Sidney Poitier and Bill Russell, as well as an in-depth look at the Civil Rights landmark Meredith March Against Fear. Today, we have the first of two part interview about his latest book, The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America, which is published by University of North Carolina Press.