America's Three Regimes: A New Political History - Hardcover

Keller, Morton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195325028 ISBN 13: 9780195325027

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate as never before the slow steady evolution of American politics, government, and law. The three regimes, which mark longer periods of continuity than traditional eras reflect, are Deferential and Republican, from the colonial period to the 1820s; Party and Democratic, from the 1830s to the 1930s; and Populist and Bureaucratic, from the 1930s to the present. Praised by The Economist as "a feast to enjoy" and by Foreign Affairs as "a masterful and fresh account of U.S. politics," here is a major contribution to the history of the United States--an entirely new way to look at our past, our present, and our future--packed with provocative and original observations about American public life.

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About the Author

Morton Keller is Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195325028
• ISBN 13: 9780195325027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384