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EBOOK Rule and Ruin:The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199912902
EAN: DA025D7EEB
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Stron: 504
Data wydania: 2011
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As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party is rocketing rightward away        from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threaten to shut down the        government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mount primary        challenges against Republican officeholders who appear to exhibit too much        pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise are dirty words in the        Republican presidential debates. The GOP, it seems, has suddenly become a party of        ideological purity.Except this development is not new at all. In Rule and Ruin,        Geoffrey Kabaservice reveals that the moderate Republicans' downfall began not with        the rise of the Tea Party but about the time of President Dwight Eisenhower's        farewell address. Even in the 1960s, when left-wing radicalism and right-wing        backlash commanded headlines, Republican moderates and progressives formed a        powerful movement, supporting pro-civil rights politicians like Nelson Rockefeller        and William Scranton, battling big-government liberals and conservative extremists        alike. But the Republican civil war ended with the overthrow of the moderate ideas,        heroes, and causes that had comprised the core of the GOP since its formation. In        hindsight, it is today's conservatives who are "e;Republicans in Name Only."e;Writing        with passionate sympathy for a bygone tradition of moderation, Kabaservice        recaptures a time when fiscal restraint was matched with social engagement; when a        cohort of leading Republicans opposed the Vietnam war; when George Romney--father of        Mitt Romney--conducted a nationwide tour of American poverty, from Appalachia to        Watts, calling on society to "e;listen to the voices from the ghetto."e; Rule and Ruin        is an epic, deeply researched history that reorients our understanding of our        political past and present.Today, moderates are marginalized in the GOP and        progressives are all but nonexistent. In this insightful and elegantly argued book,        Kabaservice contends that their decline has left Republicans less capable of        governing responsibly, with dire consequences for all Americans.

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