![]() ![]() Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party (Twelve Books, 2019), and host of The Long Game podcast. Jon Ward is the senior political correspondent for Yahoo News, author of Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Still, this is a well-researched and valuable look back at a period of intense political turmoil that helped shape our current environment. Ward may exaggerate the "civil war" within the Democratic Party indeed, the national electoral map had been shifting well before the Carter-Kennedy duel. According to Ward, Carter eyed a run for the presidency as early as 1974, and he already resented Kennedy as a potential rival before he even met him. Kennedy, the youngest of nine children, often seemed overshadowed in that very competitive family, and he struggled to find a role. Carter was driven, self-assured, and intensely ambitious. ![]() ![]() Kennedy, of course, was born into wealth and privilege. ![]() Ward highlights the contrasts between their backgrounds and personalities. Ward, a longtime Washington-based political correspondent, asserts that the year's primary battle between Carter and Senator Ted Kennedy had an equally dramatic and transformative effect on the Democratic Party. The so-called Reagan Revolution transformed both the Republican Party and the national political landscape.
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