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Democracy betrayed : a history of the Democratic Party from cotton plantation to urban plantation /
"The Democratic Party is usually extolled as a heroic party of the people, but it has a sordid past rooted in slavery, segregation, and cynical exploitation of African Americans. This book traces the Party from its origins in the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson to the end of Reconstruc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Publishing,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: We Are All Cleons Now
- 1. The Glorious Cause or a Kind of Revolution? 1776-1783
- 2. If You Can Keep It: The Making of the Constitution, 1783-1789
- 3. Party Games: The 1790s
- 4. Utopia in Power, 1800-1815
- 5. A Lucid Interval, 1815-1828
- 6. King Andrew and the People, 1828-1837
- 7. Adrift: From Jackson to Polk, 1837-1844
- 8. War, Arsenic, and Compromise, 1844-1850
- 9. House Dividing, 1850-1860
- 10. House Divided, 1860-1865
- 11. Massive Resistance: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
- 12. Ongoing Follies: To the Urban Plantation.