Rule and Ruin - The Downfall of Moderation Destruction of Republican Party, from

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of the National Book Award-nominated The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. He has written for numerous national publications and has been an assistant professor of history at Yale University. He lives outside Washington, DC. Klappentext The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mounted primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appeared to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise were dirty words in the Republican presidential debates. The GOP, it seemed, had suddenly become a party of ideological purity. Zusammenfassung Today, moderates are marginalized in the GOP and progressives are all but nonexistent. In this insightful and elegantly argued book, Kabaservice contends that their decline has left Republicans less capable of governing responsibly, with dire consequences for all Americans. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: The Collapse of the Moderate Republican Establishment, 1960-64 Chapter 2: "Moderation Is No Virtue": The GOP and the Goldwater Campaign, 1964 Chapter 3: Wresting in the Ruins: Moderates Regain Control of the Republican Party, 1965 Chapter 4: From Rat Finks to Reagan: Republican Resurgence, 1966 Chapter 5: Moderation's High Tide: George Romney's Rise and Fall, 1967 Chapter 6: Moderate Half-Victories and the Presidential Election of 1968 Chapter 7: Moderates Get a Piece of the Action: Nixon's First Year, 1969 Chapter 8: Clashing with Nixon: The Breakup of the Moderate Republican Movement, 1970 Chapter 9: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: The Decline and Fall of the Moderate Republicans, 1971-2011 Conclusion ...

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• Authors: Geoffrey Kabaservice, Kabaservice Geoffrey
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2012
• EAN: 9780199768400
• ISBN: 978-0-19-976840-0
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 245 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; USA, Political Parties, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political parties and party platforms, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies