America's Three Regimes A New Political History

Name: America's Three Regimes A New Political History
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ISBN: 9780195374247

ISBN-10: 019537424X

ISBN-13: 9780195374247

Edition: 2009

Authors: Morton Keller

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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate as never before the slow steady evolution of American politics, government, and law. The three regimes, which mark longer periods of continuity than traditional eras reflect, are Deferential and Republican, from the colonial period to the 1820s; Party and Democratic, from the 1830s to the 1930s; and Populist and Bureaucratic, from the 1930s to the present. Praised by The Economist as "a feast to enjoy" and by Foreign…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Morton Keller received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Harvard University, and is author of numerous books and articles, including In Defense of Yesterday: James M. Beck and the Politics of Conservatism and The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast. He has also edited books on the New Deal and the age of Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Keller is currently Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History at Brandeis University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The American Polity and Its Regimes



The Deferential-Republican Regime



Old Ways and New



The Republican Revolution



From Factions to Parties



The Party-Democratic Regime: The Democratic Polity



The Culture of Democratic Party Politics



Governing a Democratic Polity



Crisis



The Party-Democratic Regime: The Industrial Polity



The Age of the Politicos



A State of Parties and Courts



The Progressive Interlude



The Populist-Bureaucratic Regime



The Rise of the Populist-Bureaucratic Regime



Bureaucracy and Democracy



Populism and Party


Epilogue: Today and Tomorrow


Notes


Index