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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374200238
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Book TitleWhat It Took to Win : a History of the Democratic Party
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicAmerican Government / General, Political Process / Political Parties, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorMichael Kazin
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22.9 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2021-044929
Reviews"There's no better time than a half century into a paralyzing partisan standoff with Republicans to ask what it has taken, historically, for Democrats to win elections. Michael Kazin's immensely valuable history of the good the bad, and the ugly of the Democratic Party charts its long path from its antimonopoly and pro-white supremacy origins, two centuries ago, to its pro-labor, New Deal, mid-twentieth-century decades in power, to the partial and fragile victories of its pro-Silicon Valley, antiracist present." --Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States "Michael Kazin's What it Took to Win is accessible and learned, detailed and sweeping, opinionated and attentive to other points of view. It is history in the grand style: literary, interdisciplinary, unafraid of drawing lessons for future conduct. Offered at a perilous moment, Kazin's interpretation of the Democratic Party is essential reading." --Randall Kennedy, professor at Harvard Law School and author of Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture "Whatever your politics are, you owe it to yourself to dive into Michael Kazin's What It Took To Win, his new, eloquent and pathbreaking history of the Democratic Party that will command your attention from the very first page. Kazin performs something of a miracle: He manages, all at once, to be elegantly concise, briskly comprehensive, and thoroughly engaging. You will meet historical figures you didn't know while understanding those who you thought you knew far better. This is history at its best: honest, critical, beautifully rendered--and inspiring." -- E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and co-author of 100% Democracy "Michael Kazin has written an inspired and sweeping account of the Democratic Party's struggle for moral capitalism and electoral power. With remarkable insight, Kazin weaves together different periods and players in the party's history, making sense of disparate pieces. The work of one of our great historians, What It Took to Win offers a compelling, clear-eyed argument about what Democrats have accomplished as well as their limitations. This is the single best history that we have about the Democratic Party." -- Julian Zelizer, author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich and Rise of the New Republican Party, "There's no better time than a half century into a paralyzing partisan standoff with Republicans to ask what it has taken, historically, for Democrats to win elections. Michael Kazin's immensely valuable history of the good the bad, and the ugly of the Democratic Party charts its long path from its antimonopoly and pro-white supremacy origins, two centuries ago, to its pro-labor, New Deal, mid-twentieth-century decades in power, to the partial and fragile victories of its pro-Silicon Valley, antiracist present." --Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States "Michael Kazin has written an inspired and sweeping account of the Democratic Party's struggle for moral capitalism and electoral power. With remarkable insight, Kazin weaves together different periods and players in the party's history, making sense of disparate pieces. The work of one of our great historians, What It Took to Win offers a compelling, clear-eyed argument about what Democrats have accomplished as well as their limitations. This is the single best history that we have about the Democratic Party." -- Julian Zelizer, author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich and Rise of the New Republican Party, "There's no better time than a half century into a paralyzing partisan standoff with Republicans to ask what it has taken, historically, for Democrats to win elections. Michael Kazin's immensely valuable history of the good the bad, and the ugly of the Democratic Party charts its long path from its antimonopoly and pro-white supremacy origins, two centuries ago, to its pro-labor, New Deal, mid-twentieth-century decades in power, to the partial and fragile victories of its pro-Silicon Valley, antiracist present." --Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States "Whatever your politics are, you owe it to yourself to dive into Michael Kazin's What It Took To Win, his new, eloquent and pathbreaking history of the Democratic Party that will command your attention from the very first page. Kazin performs something of a miracle: He manages, all at once, to be elegantly concise, briskly comprehensive, and thoroughly engaging. You will meet historical figures you didn't know while understanding those who you thought you knew far better. This is history at its best: honest, critical, beautifully rendered--and inspiring." -- E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and co-author of 100% Democracy "Michael Kazin has written an inspired and sweeping account of the Democratic Party's struggle for moral capitalism and electoral power. With remarkable insight, Kazin weaves together different periods and players in the party's history, making sense of disparate pieces. The work of one of our great historians, What It Took to Win offers a compelling, clear-eyed argument about what Democrats have accomplished as well as their limitations. This is the single best history that we have about the Democratic Party." -- Julian Zelizer, author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich and Rise of the New Republican Party
Table Of ContentPreface: To Promote the General Welfare Prologue: A Useful Myth 1. Creating the Democracy, 1820-1848 2. To Conserve the White Man's Republic, 1848-1874 3. Bosses North and South, 1874 -1894 4. The Progressive Turn, 1894 -1920 5. It's Up to the Women, 1920-1933 6. An American Labor Party? 1933-1948 7. Freedom and Fragmentation, 1948-1968 8. Whose Party Is It? 1969-1994 9. Cosmopolitans in Search of a New Majority, 1994 -2020 Appendix Notes Good Reading Acknowledgments Index
SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for "moral capitalism," from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden. One of Kirkus Reviews ' 40 most anticipated books of 2022 One of Vulture 's 49 books we can't wait to read in 2022 The Democratic Party is the world's oldest mass political organization. Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, it has played a central role in defining American society, whether it was exercising power or contesting it. But what has the party stood for through the centuries, and how has it managed to succeed in elections and govern? In What It Took to Win , the eminent historian Michael Kazin identifies and assesses the party's long-running commitment to creating "moral capitalism"--a system that mixed entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers and consumers. And yet the same party that championed the rights of the white working man also vigorously protected or advanced the causes of slavery, segregation, and Indian removal. As the party evolved towards a more inclusive egalitarian vision, it won durable victories for Americans of all backgrounds. But it also struggled to hold together a majority coalition and advance a persuasive agenda for the use of government. Kazin traces the party's fortunes through vivid character sketches of its key thinkers and doers, from Martin Van Buren and William Jennings Bryan to the financier August Belmont and reformers such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Sidney Hillman, and Jesse Jackson. He also explores the records of presidents from Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Throughout, Kazin reveals the rich interplay of personality, belief, strategy, and policy that define the life of the party--and outlines the core components of a political endeavor that may allow President Biden and his co-partisans to renew the American experiment., A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of Kirkus Reviews ' ten best US history books of 2022 A leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for "moral capitalism," from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden. One of Kirkus Reviews ' 40 most anticipated books of 2022 One of Vulture 's "49 books we can't wait to read in 2022" The Democratic Party is the world's oldest mass political organization. Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, it has played a central role in defining American society, whether it was exercising power or contesting it. But what has the party stood for through the centuries, and how has it managed to succeed in elections and govern? In What It Took to Win , the eminent historian Michael Kazin identifies and assesses the party's long-running commitment to creating "moral capitalism"--a system that mixed entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers and consumers. And yet the same party that championed the rights of the white working man also vigorously protected or advanced the causes of slavery, segregation, and Indian removal. As the party evolved towards a more inclusive egalitarian vision, it won durable victories for Americans of all backgrounds. But it also struggled to hold together a majority coalition and advance a persuasive agenda for the use of government. Kazin traces the party's fortunes through vivid character sketches of its key thinkers and doers, from Martin Van Buren and William Jennings Bryan to the financier August Belmont and reformers such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Sidney Hillman, and Jesse Jackson. He also explores the records of presidents from Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Throughout, Kazin reveals the rich interplay of personality, belief, strategy, and policy that define the life of the party--and outlines the core components of a political endeavor that may allow President Biden and his co-partisans to renew the American experiment.
LC Classification NumberJK2316.K379 2022
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