How America's political parties change (and how they don't)
(2019)
By:
Barone, Michael
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
324.273/BARONE,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York ; London : Encounter Books, 2019
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
130 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781641770781, 1641770783 :, 9781641770781 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Lessons from the early republic -- Adaptation -- Lessons from the last century -- Challenging the two-party system -- The Wilson years -- The Republicans' return, the Democrats' wilderness years -- Democrats ascend -- A natural majority? -- The postwar attempt to produce ideologically polarized politics -- How the Republican party sloughed off its liberals -- How the Democratic party sloughed off its conservatives -- How partisan polarized parity came into being -- The South -- The surprising new political battleground: the midwest