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THE HIDDEN ELECTION: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN THE 1980 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, edited by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket, stated first edition, 1981. BOOK CONDITION: Very good. The text block is in near fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks (except three numbers inexplicably written on the half-title page). No bookplate or signature of prior owner. The used bookstore price label is affixed inside the front board. Not a library book or remainder. The gray and black boards are in very good condition (two bumped corners, lightly bumped spine). The dust jacket is in good condition (edge crinkling and chipping, a few tiny tears along top and bottom edges). 9 ½ x 6 ½, 342 pages, 24 ounces XX [From the dust jacket flaps] The 1980 presidential election seems to have radically altered the main features of the American political landscape. It was one of those rare and cataclysmic elections in which old political habits, orientations, and patterns are shattered and new coalitions and perspectives spontaneously emerge. Daily newspaper accounts, as well as the flood of books that now follow routinely upon elections, focus on the surface of this uproar. But as with an actual earthquake, the real forces which precipitated the rupture lie deep underground, where slow but massive realignments finally produce a violent eruption at the surface. It is this subterranean but decisive political region that is charted here for the first time in THE HIDDEN ELECTION, not the conventional arena of candidate personalities, media images, official endorsements, and public relations gimmicks, but rather the political movement and organization of the centers of power in American soclety: the international banks, multinational and national corporations, arms manufacturers, oil companies, labor unions, and other large interests both foreign and domestic. In THE HIDDEN ELECTION, essays by eleven of America's leading political scientists and political commentators relentlessly track these hidden and crucial forces in the 1980 campaign, allowing us to finally understand all the alignments and all the issues that dominated the public campaign. Stunning essays on the erratic primary elections, on voting patterns in the general election, on government regulation of business, on the Federal Reserve Bank and the monetary system, on industrial productivity, on the role of science and the universities, on social welfare, on foreign relations, and on the shifting political coalition of the dominant elites yield unprecedented insight into the real nature and inner logic of the 1980 campaign. THE HIDDEN ELECTION goes a long way toward laying bare the mainsprings of American politics and clarifying our future political course. XX Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers are members of the political science departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers University (University College/ Newark), respectively. Their column, The Political Economy, appears regularly in The Nation.
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