Daschle vs. Thune moves beyond the nitty-gritty of public policy to deftly show how the recent past continues to shape the ongoing political battles that animate pundits and bloggers. It is a compelling story told by a writer who knows both his home ground and how it fits into the wider U.S. context.
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Daschle vs. Thune moves beyond the nitty-gritty of public policy to deftly show how the recent past continues to shape the ongoing political battles that animate pundits and bloggers. It is a compelling story told by a writer who knows both his home ground and how it fits into the wider U.S. context.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed by Senator Thune on half-title. xvii, 326 p. Illustrations. NotesIndex. The author was a Senior Advisor to U.S. Senator John Thune. The story behind the unseating of a Senate majority leader. The race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota was 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 since the 1960s. In a sign of the ongoing strength of political conservatism, Daschle became the first Senate leader in fifty years to lose a re-election bid. Historian Jon K. Lauck, a South Dakotan who was an insider during that heated campaign, now offers a multilayered examination of this hard-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&emdash; 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 recent past continues to shape the ongoing political battles that animate pundits and bloggers. It is a compelling story told by a writer who knows both his home ground and how it fits into the wider U.S. context. Jon K. Lauck is Senior Advisor to U.S. Senator John Thune and author of American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980. He resides in Sioux Falls. "Jon Lauck's account of one of the hardest-fought elections in the 2004 campaign should be must reading for Democrats as well as Republicans. " Michael Barone, Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report.
