Highlighting Dwight Eisenhowers political campaign. She examines what components made them successful. Her class is about an hour and 10 minutes. Nothing perhaps captures the popular memory of the 1950s like the slogan, i like ike. This idea, this pin that so many people wore around the campaign of 1952 and 1956, conveys a notion of nostalgia and simplicity. It really emphasizes this idea of the 1950s as this era of prosperity. And the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth. And it is a political construction. The 1950s, in fact, it was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anti communism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and often anticommunists took away civil liberti
And the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth. And it is a political construction. The 1950s, in fact, it was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anti communism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and often anticommunists took away civil liberties. These are all areas of political pressure in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week. I like ike, as a political construct, shifted attention away from those divisions and it created a sense of consensus. In many ways, again, this is a political construction. At the root of it was an innovative and transformative Marketing Campaign that transformed a military hero into a p
Worldwide since recordkeeping began over 130 years ago. We will speak with a scientist who has exposed how Global Warming has worsened the California Drought. Into conflict minerals. A federal pills court rules corporations dont need to state whether they use materials from the wartorn democratic public of congo. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In news from greece, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced his resignation on thursday, paving the way for new elections. The move came after tsipras lost the support of many members of his own syriza party who opposed his backing of the demands of International Creditors for yet more austerity and economic reform in exchange for a new 96 billion bailout. Tspiras, who is expected to win in the snap elections, said the vote will give the greek people a chance to have a say on the new bailout. I would like to summit the governments resignation and i would like
Children of puerto rico deserve nothing less. Amy in july was hot. It was the hottest month worldwide since recordkeeping began over 130 years ago. We will speak with a scientist who has exposed how Global Warming has worsened the California Drought. Into conflict minerals. A federal pills court rules corporations dont need to state whether they use materials from the wartorn democratic public of congo. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In news from greece, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced his resignation on thursday, paving the way for new elections. The move came after tsipras lost the support of many members of his own syriza party who opposed his backing of the demands of International Creditors for yet more austerity and economic reform in exchange for a new 96 billion bailout. Tspiras, who is expected to win in the snap elections, said the vote will give the greek people a chance to have a
Children of puerto rico deserve nothing less. Amy in july was hot. It was the hottest month worldwide since recordkeeping began over 130 years ago. We will speak with a scientist who has exposed how Global Warming has worsened the California Drought. Into conflict minerals. A federal pills court rules corporations dont need to state whether they use materials from the wartorn democratic public of congo. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In news from greece, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced his resignation on thursday, paving the way for new elections. The move came after tsipras lost the support of many members of his own syriza party who opposed his backing of the demands of International Creditors for yet more austerity and economic reform in exchange for a new 96 billion bailout. Tspiras, who is expected to win in the snap elections, said the vote will give the greek people a chance to have a