
Moderates
The Vital Centre of American Politics, from the Founding to Today
David S. Brown(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Will be published approx. on 16. January 2017
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-4696-2923-0 (ISBN)
Description
The fierce polarisation of contemporary politics has encouragedAmericans to read back into their nation's past a perpetual ideologicalstruggle between liberals and conservatives. However, in this timely book,David S. Brown advances an original interpretation that stresses the criticalrole of moderate statesmen, ideas, and alliances in making our politicalsystem work. Beginning with John Adams and including such key figuresas Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and BillClinton, Brown charts the vital if uneven progress of centrism through thecenturies. Moderate opposition to both New England and southern secessionistsduring the early republic and later resistance to industrial oligarchyand the modern Sunbelt right are part of this persuasion's far-reaching legacy.Time and again moderates, operating under a broad canopy of coalitions,have come together to reshape the nation's electoral landscape.
Today's bitter partisanship encourages us to deny that such a moderatetradition is part of our historical development-one dating back to theConstitutional Convention. Brown offers a less polemical and far more compellingassessment of our politics.
Today's bitter partisanship encourages us to deny that such a moderatetradition is part of our historical development-one dating back to theConstitutional Convention. Brown offers a less polemical and far more compellingassessment of our politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
657 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-2923-0 (9781469629230)
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Person
David S. Brown is the Raffensperger Professor of History at Elizabethtown College. His published works include Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.