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Title: The Emerging Democratic Majority by John B. Judis, Ruy Teixeira ISBN: 0-7432-2691-7 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "The Democrats are Returning"
Comment: This was a GREAT book if you wanted to learn about political trends over the last 50 years. I often wondered why African Americans voted some Democratic in such high numbers? This book (and others I have read since) discusses how the South turned Republican when politicians such as Barry Goldwater turned against the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act of the 1960's. That is when blacks moved in the Democratic aisle. Ronald Reagan effectively used those racial politics to win the South in the 1980's. Keep in mind the recent comments of former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Remember, Lott also made similiar comments when Reagan began his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Get this book. This is a fun and delightful book for all political persuasions.
Rating: 4
Summary: Factual Book on the Major Shifts in America's Two Parties
Comment: Reading this book makes one realizes that membership in either of the two main American political parties is not so static as many would have us believe. This book made me realize I probably would have been a Republican up until Hoover and then a Democrat thereafter if I was living back then. One also learns that the old Democrats (read Dixie-crats) are now the main Republican constituents and that they indeed helped the Republicans usher in the conservative "majority" in the 1980s... which is a complete flip-flop of what Republicans were all about up until and including the time of Theodore Roosevelt.
A thoroughly researched and well presented thesis makes this book a great read. And, I might add, let's hope that what it postulates does come to fuition. The sooner the better.
Rating: 4
Summary: 2004's Most Politically Useful Book...
Comment: The title of the book sets out its thesis pretty clearly, but what it doesn't show is the methodology the authors use in making their claim. After a roughly 30-year cycle of Republican majority (including the Republican Congress of 6 of Clinton's 8 years), Judis and Teixeira predict that we are on the cusp of a perhaps thirty year cycle of Democratic supremacy in Congress and in the White House.
To make this claim, they look at voting trends and data of the last 70 years (though they focus on the last four elections). Their argument is that with the growth of postindustrial "ideopolises" across the country (cities and suburbs that are more dependent on the creation of ideas and services than goods) and the end of the backlash against '60s liberalism, its only a matter of time (barring additional incidents like September 11th) before the Democrats reascend to their heights of the '30s to '60s.
It's a compelling argument, and their use of statistics and solid voting data helps a lot. If it's not required reading in both the Bush and Kerry camps it should be. It suffers a little for having been written before the 2002 midterms, but the new afterword written in 2003 for the paperback edition helps recitfy that. It could also use a little ethnography to go with its statistics and political science, too.
In spite of that, this book should be a must for pundits in this election cycle. Anyone with an interest in how Americans vote (if not always why they vote they way they do) should read it, too. It's vastly more useful than all the exposes, testimonials and pseudohistorical analyses that the average bookstore's "Politics" section is littered with...
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Title: The Two Americas : Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It by Stanley B. Greenberg ISBN: 0312318383 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 08 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Rise of Southern Republicans by Earl Black, Merle Black ISBN: 067400728X Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Up From Conservatism by Michael Lind ISBN: 0684831864 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason ISBN: 0312315600 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 25 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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