Rule and Ruin The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party

Name: Rule and Ruin The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party
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ISBN: 9780199975518

ISBN-10: 0199975515

ISBN-13: 9780199975518

Edition: 2013

Authors: Geoffrey Kabaservice

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As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party is rocketing rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threaten to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mount primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appear to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise are dirty words in the Republican presidential debates. The GOP, it seems, has suddenly become a party of ideological purity.Except this development is not new at all. In Rule and Ruin, Geoffrey Kabaservice reveals that the moderate Republicans' downfall began not with the rise of the Tea Party but about the time of President…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



The Widening Gyre


The Republican Party at the 1960 Convention



Things Fall Apart


Advance Magazine and the Decay of the Moderate Establishment, 1961-63



The Center Cannot Hold


The Republican Primaries of 1964



The Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed


The GOP and the Goldwater Campaign, 1964



The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned


Moderates Attempt to Regain Control of the GOP, 1965



Full of Passionate Intensity


From Rat Finks to Reagan, 1966



The Best Lack All Conviction


Moderations Zenith and George Romney Rise and Fall, 1967



Mere Anarchy


Moderate Half-Victories and the Agonies of 1968



Some Revelation is at Hand


Richard Nixon's First Year in Office, 1969



The Rough Beast


Nixon and the Breakup of the Moderate Republican Movement, 1970



Darkness Drops


Moderate Republican Decline from Nixon to Ford to Reagan, 1971-80



Slouching Toward Bethlehem


The Collapse of the Moderate Republicans, 1980-2010


Conclusion


Afterword


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index