Divided They Stand

by David English

Preface
The Disunited States
President Imperfect
The Undeclared War
New Course on Campus
The McCarthy Challenge
New Hampshire-The Children's Crusade
Once Again the Round Table
Abdication American Style
Can Black Ever Be Beautiful?
'They Want Welfare, We Want Wallace'
The Republicans: New Image vs. Old Fortune
From the Granite to the Gold
California: Showdown in a Plastic Paradise
The Gun Is Mightier than the Vote
Miami: Love-in on the Beach
Chicago-Wild in the Streets
From Traditional Beginnings
Wallace: Where Does the South End?
Nixon: Letting the Clock Run Out
Humphrey: Some Talk Change
The Man & the Moment
Index

428 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

I keep an eye open for books about the United States of America written by foreigners as a corrective to prejudices instilled by a life lived mostly in the USA and over twelve years of public school education. Sir David English and seven other reporters from London's Daily Express composed such a book for British audiences in 1968/69, it being a representation of the Presidential campaign of 1968. English was present at many of the events covered and interviewed many of the principals. There are some errors (MOBE was the acronym for the Mobilization Against the War, not MOB), but overall it is a fair and accurate account. English's sympathies are with McCarthy and Humphrey. He is positively antipathetic to Wallace. Much of American political behavior requires explanation to his British readers and contrasts are often explicitly made in consideration of American readers. Generally, we do not come off very well and the book may be read as a very strong critique of the antidemocratic conduct of our campaigns whereby dollars vote as well as citizens.