Bibliograph

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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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-465) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rule and ruin

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

712983640

Responsibility statement

Geoffrey Kabaservice

Series statement

Studies in postwar American political development

Sub title

the downfall of moderation and the destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party

Summary

Explores the origins of the Republican Party's shift from a party of moderation to one of extremism, beginning in the early 1960s with President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address

Table Of Contents

The widening gyre: the Republican party at the 1960 convention -- Things fall apart: Advance magazine and the decay of the moderate establishment, 1961-63 -- The center cannot hold: the republican primaries of 1964 -- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed: the GOP and the Goldwater campaign, 1964 -- The ceremony of innocence is drowned: moderates attempt to regain control of the GOP, 1965 -- Full of passionate intensity: from rat finks to Reagan, 1966 -- The best lack all conviction: moderations' zenith and George Romney's rise and fall, 1967 -- Mere anarchy: moderate half-victories and the agonies of 1968 -- Some revelation is at hand: Richard Nixon's first year in office, 1969 -- The rough beast: Nixon and the breakup of the moderate Republican movement, 1970 -- Darkness drops: moderate republican decline from Nixon to Ford to Reagan, 1971-80 -- Slouching toward Bethlehem: the collapse of the moderate republicans, 1980-2010

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