Divided They Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party, 1964-1996

Radosh, Ronald

ISBN 10: 0684828103 / ISBN 13: 9780684828107

Published by Free Press, New York, 1996

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24 cm, 298 pages. References, bibliography, index. Signed by the author. How the Democratic Party's collapse as a majority party can be traced to the battles over civil rights and the Vietnam War. Seller Inventory # 16550

Bibliographic Details

Title: Divided They Fell: The Demise of the ...

Publisher: Free Press, New York

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

Dust Jacket Condition: very good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Printing.

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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.

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.