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America at the Ballot Box
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Elections are, and always have been, the lifeblood of American democracy. Often raucous and sharply contentious, sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future, and invariably full of dramatic moments, elections offer insight into the character and historical evolution of American politics. America at the Ballot Box uses the history of presidential elections to illuminate American political democracy and its development from the early Republic to the late 20th century.
Some of the contributions in America at the Ballot Box focus on elections that resulted in dramatic political change, including Jefferson's defeat of Adams in 1800, the 1860 election of Lincoln, and Reagan's 1980 landslide victory. Others concentrate on contests whose importance lies more in the way they illuminate the broad, underlying processes of political change, such as the corruption controversy of Cleveland's acrimonious election in 1884 or the advent of television advertising during the 1952 campaign, when Eisenhower defeated Stevenson. Another set of essays takes a thematic approach, exploring the impact of foreign relations, Anglophobia, and political communications over long periods of electoral time. Uniting all of the chapters is the common conviction that elections provide a unique vantage point from which to view the American political system.
Ranging from landmark contests to less influential victories and defeats, the essays by leading political historians seek to rehabilitate the historical significance of presidential elections and integrate them into the broader evolution of American government, policies, and politics.
The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
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During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium.
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A triumph of scholarship.
- De Charles Garrettson en 05-13-24
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Fault Lines
- A History of the United States Since 1974
- De: Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: You might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the “Reagan Revolution” and the the rise of the New Right. How did the US become so divided? Fault Lines offers a richly told, wide-angle history view toward an answer.
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Good overview of the past 45 years
- De Adam Shields en 02-26-19
De: Kevin M. Kruse, y otros
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Working Class Republican
- Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism
- De: Henry Olsen
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Conventional political wisdom views the two most consequential presidents of the 20th century - FDR and Ronald Reagan - as ideological opposites. FDR is hailed as the champion of big-government progressivism manifested in the New Deal. Reagan is seen as the crusader for conservatism dedicated to small government and free markets. But Henry Olsen argues that this assumption is wrong.
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Refreshing and insightful
- De Thomas Marks en 12-16-19
De: Henry Olsen
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The Fierce Urgency of Now
- Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
- De: Julian E. Zelizer
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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The Fierce Urgency of Now animates the full spectrum of forces at play during these turbulent years, including religious groups, the media, conservative and liberal political action groups, unions, and civil rights activists. Above all, the great character in the audiobook whose role rivals Johnson's is Congress - indeed, Zelizer argues that our understanding of the Great Society program is too Johnson-centric.
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Four Threats
- The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
- De: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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In The Four Threats, Lieberman and Mettler explore five historical episodes when democracy in the United States was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound, even fatal, damage to the American democratic experiment, and on occasion antidemocratic forces have prevailed. From this history, four distinct characteristics of democratic disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power...have threatened the survival of the republic.
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Very informative
- De Angela Fobbs en 12-31-20
De: Suzanne Mettler, y otros
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Pivotal Tuesdays
- Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
- De: Margaret O'Mara
- Narrado por: James Killavey
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Pivotal Tuesdays looks back at four pivotal presidential elections of the past 100 years to show how they shaped the 20th century. During the rowdy, four-way race in 1912 between Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Eugene Debs, and Woodrow Wilson, the candidates grappled with the tremendous changes of industrial capitalism and how best to respond to them. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt's promises to give Americans a "New Deal" to combat the Great Depression helped him beat the beleaguered incumbent, Herbert Hoover.
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Important book...especially this year.
- De Jim en 07-31-16
De: Margaret O'Mara
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Broken Government
- How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
- De: John W. Dean
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
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In his eighth book, Dean takes the broadest and deepest view yet of the dysfunctional chaos and institutional damage that the Republican Party and its core conservatives have inflicted on the federal government. He assesses the state of all three branches of government, tracing their decline through the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II.
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Attention Policy Wonks - This is the book for you
- De Neal en 09-19-09
De: John W. Dean
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- De: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- De John en 10-06-11
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Temptations of Power
- Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
- De: Shadi Hamid
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy - the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power.
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A new perspective
- De Dave114 en 08-06-18
De: Shadi Hamid
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To Make Men Free
- A History of the Republican Party
- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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Acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Republican Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession. While progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower revived Lincoln’s vision and expanded the government, their opponents appealed to Americans’ latent racism and xenophobia to regain political power, linking taxation and regulation to redistribution and socialism. In the modern era, the schism within the Republican Party has grown wider, pulling the GOP ever further from its founding principles.
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Fascinating read!
- De Marsha en 12-27-21
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Kill Switch
- The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
- De: Adam Jentleson
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively White, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule.
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Don't bother, narration intolerable!
- De Joseph en 03-08-21
De: Adam Jentleson
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The Party Is Over
- How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
- De: Mike Lofgren
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk - they are zombies, a party of the living dead. Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties - those halcyon, post-Nixonian glory days - for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill.
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A Great Analysis
- De Dan D en 09-04-12
De: Mike Lofgren
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Audacity
- How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
- De: Jonathan Chait
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded health insurance to millions who previously could not afford it, negotiated an historic nuclear deal with Iran, helped craft a groundbreaking international climate accord, reined in Wall Street, and crafted a new vision of racial progress.
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Good and balanced view of the Obama years
- De Paul en 02-01-17
De: Jonathan Chait