Two-Party System Nobody Asked For
Published on 1. January 2019
240 pages
978-1-62894-355-9 (ISBN)
Description
Bob Mills analyzes the Democratic Party and the Republican Party over the course of time. He finds both of them seriously flawed, and raises deep questions about the two-party system overall.
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Person
Robert Lockwood Mills is author of Conscience of a Conspiracy Theorist (Algora 2011), and eleven other books on history, biography and political commentary. Mr. Mills was also co-author of the Illustrated History of Stamford CT. He has been Project Editor for five books on historical topics published by Reader's Digest. His docudrama The Trial of John Wilkes Booth was broadcast on Connecticut Public Radio.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Table of Contents
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1: GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS PRESCIENT
- CHAPTER 2: A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM THAT NOBODY ASKED FOR
- CHAPTER 3: A NEW TWO-PARTY SYSTEM (THAT NOBODY ASKEDFOR)
- CHAPTER 4: THE FABULOUS (?) FIFTIES AND DYSFUNCTIONALSIXTIES
- CHAPTER 5: OF PARTY BOSSES AND PRIMARY ELECTIONS
- CHAPTER 6: THE DONALD AND THE ANDREW
- CHAPTER 7: MEDIA (PLURAL NOUN) VS. MEDIA (SINGULAR NOUN)
- CHAPTER 8: RULES OF THE (POLITICAL) GAME
- CHAPTER 9: ATTACKING THE TWO-PARTY TRUST
- CHAPTER 10: FAILED THIRD PARTIES IN HISTORY
- CHAPTER 11: ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, AND OTHER MYTHS
- CHAPTER 12: A COURT RULING WORSE THAN CITIZENS UNITED?
- CHAPTER 13: VOTER FRAUD, ELECTORAL FRAUD, AND FRAUDULENT PEOPLE
- CHAPTER 14: HOW TELEVISION, BLOGS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA AFFECT POLITICS
- CHAPTER 15: BUCKING THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 16: THE ENDORSEMENT GAME
- CHAPTER 17: OF SENATE RULES AND SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS
- CHAPTER 18: WALL STREET AND THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 19: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT
- CHAPTER 20: GOD, THE MEDIA, AND THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 21: OF DINOS AND RINOS
- CHAPTER 22: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND BIG-TIME SPORTS
- CHAPTER 23: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND THE SUPREME COURT
- CHAPTER 24: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND THE 25TH AMENDMENT
- CHAPTER 25: PARTISANSHIP AND DEEP POCKETS
- CHAPTER 26: THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS AND OTHER POLITICAL WARS
- CHAPTER 27: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND THE SUPREME COURT
- CHAPTER 28: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND MOTHER NATURE
- CHAPTER 29: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM AND GENDER WARS
- CHAPTER 30: PARTISANSHIP VS. NON-PARTISANSHIP
- CHAPTER 31: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
- CHAPTER 32: NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO BE AN INDEPENDENT
- CHAPTER 33: "JUDGE NOT, LEST YOU BE JUDGED NON-PARTISAN"
- CHAPTER 34: THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS BAD FOR ONE'S HEALTH
- CHAPTER 35: THE MAN WHO UPSET THE TWO-PARTY DUOPOLY
- CHAPTER 36: PARTY-SWITCHERS DON'T HURT THE DUOPOLY
- CHAPTER 37: THE MID-TERMS SETTLE NOTHING
- CHAPTER 38: THOSE INSCRUTABLE FLORIDA VOTERS
- CHAPTER 39: GERRYMANDERING AND THE COURTS
- CHAPTER 40: THE NEW POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
- CHAPTER 41: POSSIBLE THIRD-PARTY CANDIDACIES IN 2020
- CHAPTER 42: THE ELEPHANT(S) IN THE ROOM
- CHAPTER 43: ANOTHER POTENTIAL ELEPHANT
- CHAPTER 44: A RADICAL (?) IDEA FROM A RADICAL (?) CENTRIST
- CHAPTER 45: UNTIL IT HAPPENS.
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
