Second Civil War How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

Name: Second Civil War How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
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ISBN: 9780143114321

ISBN-10: 0143114328

ISBN-13: 9780143114321

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Authors: Ronald Brownstein

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A timely and compelling analysis of Americas bitterly divisive partisan politics (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened? In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic, and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling politics into the margins and leaving precious little common ground for compromise. The Second Civil Waris not a book for Democrats or Republicans but for all Americans who are…

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List price: $30.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.56" wide x 8.46" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface: A Day in June



America Divided



The Age of Partisan Armies



The Age of Bargaining



The Age of Transition



The Age of Transition II: The Rise of Hyperpartisanship



The Great Sorting Out



The President of Half of America



The 51 Percent Solution: Republican Strategy in the Bush Years



The Opposition in an Age of Polarization



Beyond Division


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index