Political Parties category: 994 books
The Birth of the Grand Old Party
The Republicans' First Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The period from 1850 to 1876 was the most transformative era in American history. During the course of this tumultuous quarter century Americans fought a bloody civil war, tried to settle the issue of state versus central government power, recognized the dominance of the new industrial economy over...
Revolt of the Tar Heels
The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890â??1901
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
During the 1890s, North Carolina witnessed a political revolution as the newly formed Populist Party joined with the Republicans to throw out do-nothing, conservative Democrats. Focusing on political transformation, electoral reform, and new economic policies to aid poor and struggling farmers, the...
No Party Now
Politics in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis. In No Party Now, Adam I. P. Smith challenges the prevailing...
Frank and Al
FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and villains (William Randolph Hearst, William Jennings Bryan, the Ku Klux Klan). The scenes are vivid and the anecdotes...
Competitive Elections and Democracy in America
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Competition seems to be an inevitable part of present-day elections in the United States. However, recent publications have debated whether we should encourage or discourage competitive elections. In Competitive Elections and Democracy in America, Heather Evans closely examines the debate over competition...
The Populist Temptation
Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of Trump, but it was a force in Europe ever since the Great Recession sent the European economy into a prolonged tailspin. In the simplest terms, populism...
The Witchfinder General
A Political Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Labour’s octogenarian powerhouse weaves together eighty years of fascinating personal, social and political history in her memoirs. From Boots Girl to Baroness, Joyce Gould boasts an impressive list of experiences and accomplishments. Through sixty-four years as a Labour Party member, she has fought...
How to Hack a Party Line
The Democrats and Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politics
Sara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of the high-technology industry, and to show the birth of a relationship between the new millionaires of the Information...
by Camilla Johnson Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
This is a must read book for Conservatives, political activists, political candidates, and others who desire to understand the inner workings of the Black Community, politically and socially, and the relevancy of the Black Conservative message today in getting out the African-American vote for Conservatives....
Our Divided Political Heart
The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
America today is at a political impasse; we face a nation divided and discontented. Acclaimed political commentator E.J. Dionne argues that Americans can't agree on who we are as a nation because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us "Americans."
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Can twenty-first century global challenges be met through the limited adaptation of existing political institutions and prevailing systemic norms, or is a more fundamental reconstitution of governing authority unavoidable? Are the stresses evident in domestic social compacts capable of undermining...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards...
Fred Dallmayr
Critical Phenomenology, Cross-cultural Theory, Cosmopolitanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Fred Dallmayr’s work is innovative in its rethinking of some of the central concepts of modern political philosophy, challenging the hegemony of a modern “subjectivity” at the heart of Western liberalism, individualism and rationalism, and articulating alternative voices, claims and ideas. His...
by Justin P. Coffey
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Too often overlooked by students of modern conservatism, Spiro T. Agnew's political career mirrored the transformation of the Republicans from a "big tent" party to a narrower, more conservative, and ideologically purer one in the 1960s and 1970s. Spiro Agnew and the Rise of the Republican...