Paul Frymer: 3 books
Uneasy Alliances
Race and Party Competition in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. While scholars frequently claim that the need to win elections makes government officials responsive to any and all voters, Paul Frymer shows that not all groups...
Building an American Empire
The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation
Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the...
Black and Blue
African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about...