To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party 9780465024315, 9780465080663, 2014026434

When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic op

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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
9780465024315, 9780465080663, 2014026434

A distinguished American historian traces the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party—founded to give the poor equ

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On July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched s

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Keep Cool with Coolidge ... Happy Landin' with Landon ... Hike with Ike ... Go with Goldwater ... American will lon

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Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself? explores five traps that the Republican Party has set for itself and endanger

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Despite Florida’s current reputation as a swing state, there was a time when its Republicans were the underdogs against

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The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and its spread to new territories and states. Today, under th

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Kenneth Janda sheds new light on the Republican Party’s transformations, drawing on a wide range of quantitative and qua

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Traces and explains the transformation of the GOP in the 1920s and ‘30s from a party that was once a modernizing force t

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