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

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Kabaservice, Geoffrey M

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TextSeries: Oxford studies in postwar American political developmentPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 482 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9780199921133
019992113X
9780199768400
0199768404
1283428083
9781283428088
9780199912902
0199912904

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324.2734 22

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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. THE WIDENING GYRE: The Republican Party at the 1960 Convention; 2. THINGS FALL APART: Advance Magazine and the Decay of the Moderate Establishment, 1961-63; 3. THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: The Republican Primaries of 1964; 4. THE BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE IS LOOSED: The GOP and the Goldwater Campaign, 1964; 5. THE CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE IS DROWNED: Moderates Attempt to Regain Control of the GOP, 1965; 6. FULL OF PASSIONATE INTENSITY: From Rat Finks to Reagan, 1966; 7. THE BEST LACK ALL CONVICTION: Moderation's Zenith and George Romney's Rise and Fall, 1967.

8. MERE ANARCHY: Moderate Half-Victories and the Agonies of 19689. SOME REVELATION IS AT HAND: Richard Nixon's First Year in Office, 1969; 10. THE ROUGH BEAST: Nixon and the Breakup of the Moderate Republican Movement, 1970; 11. DARKNESS DROPS: Moderate Republican Decline from Nixon to Ford to Reagan, 1971-80; 12. SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM: The Collapse of the Moderate Republicans, 1980-2010; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Summary: 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 mode.

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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 mode.

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