The Princeton University Library, including the Dulles Reading Room in Rare Books and Special Collections, will be closed on Monday, 29 October 2012. Please consult the Library website, for information about hours for Tuesday.
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By Brett Tomlinson on October 26, 2012 10:50 AM, Princeton Alumni Weekly Blog
The “Nassau nine” of 1863-64. (Photo: Athletics at Princeton: A History, 1901)
Join us on Sunday, October 21, at 3 p.m., in 101 McCormick to hear Dr. Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, to speak on the current exhibition, “First X, Then Y, Now Z Landmark Thematic Maps“.
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This Thursday Mudd Library, in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson School, will be hosting a talk by Joshua Glasser, author of The Eighteen-Day Running Mate : McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis. It will be held at 4:30 in the Wilson School’s Dodds auditorium on Thursday, October 11, 2012. This event coincides with this year’s vice presidential debate which takes place Thursday evening.
Some historical background on Tom Eagleton’s short-lived vice presidential candidacy: No skeletons were rattling in his closet, Thomas Eagleton assured George McGovern’s political director. But only eighteen days later—after a series of damaging public revelations and feverish behind-the-scenes maneuverings—McGovern rescinded his endorsement of his Democratic vice-presidential running mate, and Eagleton withdrew from the ticket. This fascinating book is the first to uncover the full story behind Eagleton’s rise and precipitous fall as a national candidate.
Within days of Eagleton’s nomination, a pair of anonymous phone calls brought to light his history of hospitalizations for “nervous exhaustion and depression” and past treatment with electroshock therapy. The revelation rattled the campaign and placed McGovern’s organization under intense public and media scrutiny. Joshua M. Glasser investigates a campaign in disarray and explores the perspectives of the campaign’s key players, how decisions were made and who made them, how cultural attitudes toward mental illness informed the crisis, and how Eagleton’s and McGovern’s personal ambitions shaped the course of events.
Drawing on personal interviews with McGovern, campaign manager Gary Hart, political director Frank Mankiewicz, and dozens of other participants inside and outside the McGovern and Eagleton camps—as well as extensive unpublished campaign records—Glasser captures the political and human drama of Eagleton’s brief candidacy. Glasser also offers sharp insights into the America of 1972—mired in war and anxious about the economy, a time with striking similarities to our own. (20120806) (From Amazon)
