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Daschle vs. Thune: Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race

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Dascle Vs. Thune
Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race
Jon K. Lauck

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The story at the back of the unseating of a Senate majority leader the race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota used to be widely acknowledged as “the other big race of 2004.” Second in prominence only to the presidential race, the Daschle-Thune contest pitted the rival political ideologies that have animated American politics because the 1960s. In a sign of the ongoing strength of political conservatism, Daschle turned into the first Senate leader in fifty years to lose a re-election bid.

Historian Jon K. Lauck, a South Dakotan who used to be an insider right through that heated campaign, now offers a multilayered examination of this difficult-fought and symbolically charged race. Blending historical narrative, political analysis, and personal reflection, he offers a close-up view of the issues that divide the nation—a case study of the continuing clash between liberalism and conservatism that has played out for more than a generation in U.S. politics.

Daschle vs. Thune moves beyond the nitty-gritty of public policy to deftly show how the up to date past continues to shape the ongoing political battles that animate pundits and bloggers. This is a compelling story told by a author who knows both his home ground and the way it fits into the wider U.S. context.

Dascle Vs. Thune
Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race
Jon K. Lauck

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