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Moderates - The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (Paperback)
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Moderates - The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (Paperback)
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The fierce polarization of contemporary politics has encouraged
Americans to read back into their nation's past a perpetual
ideological struggle between liberals and conservatives. However,
in this timely book, David S. Brown advances an original
interpretation that stresses the critical role of moderate
statesmen, ideas, and alliances in making our political system
work. Beginning with John Adams and including such key figures as
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and
Bill Clinton, Brown charts the vital if uneven progress of centrism
through the centuries. Moderate opposition to both New England and
southern secessionists during the early republic and later
resistance to industrial oligarchy and 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 moderate
tradition is part of our historical development--one dating back to
the Constitutional Convention. Brown offers a less polemical and
far more compelling assessment of our politics.
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