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Where Did the Party Go? - William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy (Hardcover)
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Where Did the Party Go? - William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy (Hardcover)
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It doesn't take a pundit to recognize that the Democratic Party has
changed. With frustrating losses in the last two national elections
and the erosion of its traditional base, the party of Jefferson and
Jackson has become something neither would recognize. In this
intriguing book, Jeff Taylor looks beyond the shortcomings of
individual candidates to focus on the party's real problem: its
very philosophical underpinnings have changed in ways that turn off
many Americans. Rank-and-file party members may still hold to
traditional views, but Taylor argues that those who finance,
manage, and represent the party at the national level have become
nothing less than Hamiltonian elitists - a stance that flies in the
face of the party's bedrock Jeffersonian principles. ""Where Did
the Party Go?"" is a prodigious work of scholarship that converts
extensive research into an accessible book. Taylor offers up a
unique twelve-point model of Jefferson's thought - as relevant to
our time as to his - and uses it to appraise competing views of
liberalism in the party during two key eras. Bypassing the
well-worn assessments of high-profile Democratic presidents, he
shows instead how liberalism from 1885 to 1925 was distinctly
Jeffersonian as exemplified by the populism of William Jennings
Bryan, while from 1938 to 1978 it became largely elitist under
national leaders such as Hubert Humphrey who embraced a centralized
state and economy, as well as imperial intervention abroad. In the
first book to look closely at the ideologies of these two
midwestern liberals, Taylor chronicles Bryan's battles with the
conservative wing of the party - putting today's conflicts in sharp
historical perspective - and then tells how Humphrey followed those
who rejected Jeffersonian principles. By demonstrating how
Jefferson's legacy has gradually weakened, Taylor clearly shows why
the party has lost its place in Middle America and how its
transformation has led to widespread confusion. His provocative
look at the post-Humphrey era considers why so many of today's
voters on both Left and Right agree on issues like economic policy,
foreign relations, and political reform - united against elitists
of the Center while rarely recognizing their common kinship in
Jeffersonian ideals. If party leaders have wondered where their
traditional supporters have gone, they might well consider that
those very voters have asked what became of the party they once
knew. As the Democrats look ahead to 2008, Taylor's book will force
many to question where the party of Jefferson has gone...and
whether it can ever come back.
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