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Thunder in America: The Improbable Presidential Campaign of Jesse Jackson

Thunder in America: The Improbable Presidential Campaign of Jesse Jackson

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ISBN-13:	9780877190523
Publisher:	Gulf Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/10/1986
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

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This analysis of Jackson's 1984 presidential bid goes far toward explaining the significance and contradictions of the man and his campaign as well as the responses of black and white Americans. Based on their own reporting, the authors (Faw is a CBS correspondent; Skelton, deceased, was a Los Angeles Times reporter) view Jackson's effort as a ``political transition,'' in which an outsider with few financial resources or political connections nonetheless made the first serious black bid for the presidency. For Jackson, the campaign's ``torment'' was that his candidacy was driven by black hope but limited by white resistance, they write. Offering solid accounts of major issues and controversies, they conclude that Jackson (code-named ``Thunder'' by the Secret Service), while dismissed by Democratic party heads, managed to create a new black political network whose power will be revealed only in future elections. First serial to Los Angeles Times Magazine. (October 7

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The message of this book comes through loud and clear: Jesse Jackson had no shot at becoming President. The authors suggest that racism was at the heart and soul of the campaign and its entourage. They belabor the ``Hymietown'' incident, and adopt such adjectives as ``opportunistic,'' ``spell-binding,'' ``dishonest,'' and ``manipulative'' to describe Jackson. They discuss his understandable beefs with party rules, and his ability to get the black vote out in the South. His ties to Louis Farrakhan, globetrotting one-man diplomacy, and alleged racism even against whites who worked for his election are severely criticized. Faw and Skelton suggest that the Jackson campaign's test of value will be how well blacks do at the state and local levels in 1986 and 1988. While interesting, this work is less politically insightful than Thomas Landess and Richard M. Quinn's Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Race ( LJ 1/86). Frank Kessler, Political Science Dept., Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph

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