To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party

Richardson, Heather Cox

ISBN 10: 0465024319 / ISBN 13: 9780465024315

Edité par Basic Books, 2014

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Synopsis :

From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party―founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country's elites.

"The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses.” ―Los Angeles Times

When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian dream at the heart of its founding, the Republican Party quickly became mired in a fundamental identity crisis. Would it be the party of democratic ideals? Or would it be the party of moneyed interests?

In the century and a half since, Republicans have vacillated between these two poles, with dire economic, political, and moral repercussions for the entire nation. In To Make Men Free, celebrated historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, revealing the insidious cycle of boom and bust that has characterized the Party since its inception.

With each passing decade, with each missed opportunity and political misstep, the schism within the Republican Party has grown wider, pulling the GOP ever further from its founding principles.

Expansive and authoritative, To Make Men Free is a sweeping history of the Party that was once America's greatest political hope―and, time and time again, has proved its greatest disappointment.

À propos de l'auteur: Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian and professor of history at Boston College. Her daily newsletter, Letters from an American, has over a half million subscribers. The author of Democracy Awakening, How the South Won the Civil War, and Wounded Knee, she splits her time between Boston and Maine.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : To Make Men Free: A History of the ...
Éditeur : Basic Books
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : good