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Rule and ruin : the downfall of moderation and the destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party / Geoffrey Kabaservice.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Eng Series: Studies in postwar American political development | Studies in postwar American political developmentPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: xx, 482 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199975518 (pbk)
  • 0199975515 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.2734 22
LOC classification:
  • JK 2356 K11r 2012
Contents:
The widening gyre: the Republican party at the 1960 convention -- Things fall apart: Advance magazine and the decay of the moderate establishment, 1961-63 -- The center cannot hold: the republican primaries of 1964 -- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed: the GOP and the Goldwater campaign, 1964 -- The ceremony of innocence is drowned: moderates attempt to regain control of the GOP, 1965 -- Full of passionate intensity: from rat finks to Reagan, 1966 -- The best lack all conviction: moderations' zenith and George Romney's rise and fall, 1967 -- Mere anarchy: moderate half-victories and the agonies of 1968 -- Some revelation is at hand: Richard Nixon's first year in office, 1969 -- The rough beast: Nixon and the breakup of the moderate Republican movement, 1970 -- Darkness drops: moderate republican decline from Nixon to Ford to Reagan, 1971-80 -- Slouching toward Bethlehem: the collapse of the moderate republicans, 1980-2010.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JK 2356 K11r 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000123306

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2013"-- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-465) and index.

The widening gyre: the Republican party at the 1960 convention -- Things fall apart: Advance magazine and the decay of the moderate establishment, 1961-63 -- The center cannot hold: the republican primaries of 1964 -- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed: the GOP and the Goldwater campaign, 1964 -- The ceremony of innocence is drowned: moderates attempt to regain control of the GOP, 1965 -- Full of passionate intensity: from rat finks to Reagan, 1966 -- The best lack all conviction: moderations' zenith and George Romney's rise and fall, 1967 -- Mere anarchy: moderate half-victories and the agonies of 1968 -- Some revelation is at hand: Richard Nixon's first year in office, 1969 -- The rough beast: Nixon and the breakup of the moderate Republican movement, 1970 -- Darkness drops: moderate republican decline from Nixon to Ford to Reagan, 1971-80 -- Slouching toward Bethlehem: the collapse of the moderate republicans, 1980-2010.

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