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Title: Party of the People : A History of the Democrats by Jules Witcover ISBN: 0-375-50742-6 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent history of the Democratic party.
Comment: This is an excellent book on the history of the Democratic party. One marvel of American democracy is the durability of its founding principles. The same consistency doesn't apply to the nation's two major political parties. The Democratic Party, created in the factional tumult of post-revolutionary days, has changed from a predominantly rural, racist, states' rights party into an organ of urban minorities, liberals, and federal power. The one constant among Democrats was best identified by Will Rogers: "I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
Witcover writes at length of the key figures in Democratic annals such as Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Jennings Bryan, and FDR, with an eye for details that bring history to life. His description of the ailing Roosevelt's duplicitous scheming to replace Vice President Henry A. Wallace with Missouri Senator Harry S Truman in 1944 offers insight into the great Democrat's character. But Witcover also devotes space to important but lesser-known figures: Martin Van Buren, for instance, was a wily New York Senator whose skillful 1828 promotion of Andrew Jackson's war-hero image paved the way for modern electioneering.
Although Witcover, a liberal columnist, is sympathetic to the Democrats, he doesn't hesitate to condemn the party's dark moments. A particularly odious Democrat, in Witcover's mind, is 15th President James Buchanan, a virulent racist who, in the years just before the Civil War, blamed national friction on the Northern abolitionists he said were stirring up slaves with hopes of freedom.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good and interesting reading
Comment: It was very hard to put it down, I wanted to keep reading as it
was very interesting what length the Republicians will go to to
stay in office. Senator Daschle has really been put thru the mill, I admire him for his efforts in every way. It is really sad
that we can't accept each others opinions and get along. After all everyone has some good ideas and why can't they get together
and come to an agreement.
Rating: 5
Summary: A good unbiased account
Comment: A very unbiased and interesting account. This volume, which is well researched, does a good job looking at the Democratic party. From the split over the civil war to the party of racial suppression to the party of the 'cross of gold' under Bryan to Wilson and FDR. The party of the New Deal and the party that exposed the 'missile gap' and began the Vietnam War. The Party that took down Nixon and finally found victory in 1992. An interesting well written account that follows the Democratic party from its southern slave holding roots to its 'big tent' policies of the 1930s and 1990s.
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Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black ISBN: 1586481843 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek ISBN: 0316172383 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power by Lou Cannon ISBN: 1586480308 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg ISBN: 0375505857 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade by Joseph E. Stiglitz ISBN: 0393058522 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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