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Moderates - The Vital Centre of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (Hardcover)
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Moderates - The Vital Centre of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (Hardcover)
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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.
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