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Republic of Wrath
How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump
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- USD 18.99
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Descripción editorial
A prize-winning political scientist untangles the deep roots of tribalism in America.
American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone shows that today's rancor isn't what's new -- the clarity of the battle lines is. Past eras were full of discord, but the most contentious question in American society -- Who are we? -- never split along party lines.
Instead, each party reached out to different groups on the margins of power: immigrants, African Americans, and women. But, as the United States underwent profound societal transformations from the Civil War to the populist explosion to the Great Migration to civil rights to the latest era of immigration, the party alignment shifted. African Americans conquered the old segregationist party and Democrats slowly evolved into the party of civil rights, immigration, and gender rights. Republicans turned whiter and more nativist. The unprecedented party lineup now injects tribal intensity into every policy difference.
Republic of Wrath tells the story of America as we've never heard it before, explaining the origins of our fractious times and suggesting how we might build a more robust republic.
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Political scientist Morone (The Devils We Know) surveys more than 200 years of partisan discord in this incisive and well-researched history. Though immigration and race have been flash points since the first contested election in 1800, Morone writes, today's disagreements over "who votes and how easily" have reached an unprecedented ferocity due to party realignment; Democrats now represent "all the so-called minorities" and their liberal supporters, while "white, native males" lean Republican. Sketching the evolution of the major parties through the 19th and 20th centuries, Monroe pinpoints Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater in 1964, which paved the way for landmark civil rights legislation, as the genesis of today's "fierce tribal politics." Resentment over minority progress broke up the coalition of Southern Democrats and Northern liberals that had been the backbone of New Deal and Great Society reforms, Monroe contends, and transformed the Republicans into the party of "small government, moral values, states' rights, and racial backlash." Monroe marshals a vast amount of information into a brisk, accessible narrative, and draws illuminating contrasts between past and present, spotlighting, for instance, stark differences between the politics of Democratic presidential candidates Harry Truman and Hillary Clinton. This nuanced and richly detailed account offers essential perspective ahead of the 2020 election.