DIVIDED THEY FELL: The Demise of the Democratic Party, 1964-1996 - Hardcover

Radosh, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684828103 ISBN 13: 9780684828107

Publisher: Free Press, 1996

Synopsis

Tracing the Democratic Party's dramatic shift to the left over the last thirty years and its concurrent demise, a scholar proposes that the Democrats will never be able to recapture the strength of the New Deal. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

Review:

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.

About the Author:

Ronald Radosh is Senior Okin Professor of History at Adelphi University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684828103
• ISBN 13: 9780684828107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320