| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 826 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [781]-790) and index. |
| Contents |
Unwanted pregnancy, 1775-1792 -- New party is born, 1792-1796 -- Heartbeat from power, 1797-1800 -- New party takes over, 1800-1801 -- Jeffersonian era begins, 1801-1809 -- Party stands alone, 1809-1827 -- Jacksonian Democracy, 1828-1836 -- Jacksonianism without Jackson, 1837-1844 -- Manifest Destiny, war and compromise, 1845-1852 -- Party self-destructs, 1853-1860 -- Civil War and Peace Democrats, 1861-1868 -- Wilderness years, 1869-1880 -- On the road to party recovery, 1881-1896 -- Bryan era, 1896-1912 -- Wilson and the New Freedom, 1912-1915 -- Great War tests the party, 1916-1920 -- Sidewalks of New York, 1920-1933 -- FDR and the New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Democracy fights fascism, 1939-1945 -- Truman: the buck stops here, 1945-1948 -- Fair Deal, and end of an era, 1949-1952 -- In the shadow of a war hero, 1953-1960 -- JFK: the party bounces back, 1960 -- Beginning and end of the new frontier, 1961-1963 -- LBJ: rise and fall of the great society, 1963-1968 -- Democratic cataclysm, 1968 -- Reform, but not revival, 1968-1974 -- Post-Watergate interlude, 1974-1980 -- Bucking the Reagan revolution 1981-1984 -- Time for party soul-searching, 1985-1991 -- Different kind of Democrat, 1992 -- Looking like America, 1993-1996 -- Democratic phoenix, 1997-1999 -- Calamity in 2000. |
| Subject |
Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
0375507426 (acid-free paper) |
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