{"product_id":"the-u-s-presidential-elections-1988-an-analysis-von-unknown","title":"The U.S. Presidential Elections 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: George H.W. Bush\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bush, a New England aristocrat partially transplanted to Texas, entered politics after\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealmost two decades in the oil business. He was born on 12 June 1924 in Massachusetts, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egrew up in a wealthy New York suburb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBush followed his father¿s example in switching from financial success in business to politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Texas in 1964 and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1970, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1966 and again in 1968. After losing the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erace for the Senate in 1970, Bush was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Ford to a succession\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof important positions: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the RNC, liaison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto China, and director of the CIA. In January 1977 Bush resigned as head of the CIA and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereturned to Texas, where he began campaigning for the presidency in 1978. However, he lost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe nomination to the more glamorous and conservative Ronald Reagan, who later picked him\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto be his running mate for the office of vice-president. The Reagan-Bush ticket won easily in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1980, and 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Dukakis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Dukakis¿s political strength, and the reason he won the Democratic nomination in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1988, was the fact that very different kinds of Democrats and liberals could project their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehopes onto him. At heart, the Governor of Massachusetts was an old-style Democrat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDukakis¿s style was that of the upper-middle-class reformers who were now so important to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Democratic nominating process. Yet Dukakis was also a Greek American, the ¿son of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimmigrants,¿ as he would say over and over. His approach to government was intensely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eserious and mistrustful of politics-as-usual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640664047\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAn Analysis\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640664047","offer_id":39442167038045,"sku":"9783640664047","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/52311279-c3fb-4a19-8af8-d60332f145bd.jpg?v=1777696452","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-u-s-presidential-elections-1988-an-analysis-von-unknown","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}