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Books : DIVIDED THEY FELL: The Demise of the Democratic Party, 1964-1996In association with Amazon.comby: Ronald Radosh  List Price: $25.00 Price: $0.75 You Save: $24.25 (97%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2736 EAN: 9780684828107 ISBN: 0684828103 Label: Free Press Manufacturer: Free Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: August 01, 1996 Publisher: Free Press Studio: Free Press Sales Rank: 1917307 Editorial Review: Book Description: "This book briskly recounts the Democratic Party's leftward lurch during the tumultuous 1960s and the subsequent decline of liberalism as a vital force in our nation's political life".--Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute. Amazon.com: In Divided They Fell, Ronald Radosh argues that the Democratic Party began unraveling because of its turn toward liberalism in the 1960s. That liberalism, argues Radosh, the Senior Okin Professor of History at Adelphi University, "ignored and ridiculed the conservative desires of white ethnic working-class Americans who once voted Democratic as a matter of ritual." Radosh traces the roots of this demise to the 1964 Democratic National Convention during which white Mississippi delegates walked out after support was shown for the Freedom Democratic Party. With evidence and anecdote, he follows this thread of liberalism through to the presidency of Bill Clinton. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Prediction or Democratic Party Heal ThyselfIt is 1996. Will Bill Clinton be re-elected. We know the answer now and we know that Democratic Party gains arguably were forfeited by personal misconduct on the part of the President. What we don't know is why the party was so weak between 1964 and 1996, a thirty-two year span. This book purports to tell us what happened. Ronald Radosh identifies himself as a registered member of the party who is right to center. Mississippi had led the nation in beatings, lynching, and mysterious ... Read More Rating:  - When then wind came poring through the treesRadosh traces the roots of the shift within the Democratic party from one of shared community and mutually acknowledged ethics, for the empowerment of those in need, to one of class warfare cant and socialist dreams. Just as Ronald Reagan averred that he didn't leave the Democratic party, it left him, Radosh offers his concurrence. Radosh assigns the outset of the shift as having its roots in the McGovern candidacy for president in the 1972 election campaign. He foreshadows this event with musings ... Read More Rating: - How Political Realignment Was MadeIn 2000, Al Gore carried on a tradition of Democratic Presidential nominees that dates back to 1964: he failed to garner a clear majority of the popular vote (ie., 51% or better). Throughout this 36-year period, only Jimmy Carter was able to amass even 50% of the vote, a rather tepid showing, coming as it did, less than two years after the national nightmare of Watergate and Ford's wildly unpopular pardon of Nixon. All in all, it's been a precipitous come down for the proud party of FDR ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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