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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| An Unwanted Pregnancy, 1775-1792 | |
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| The New Party Is Born, 1792-1796 | |
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| A Heartbeat from Power, 1797-1800 | |
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| The New Party Takes Over, 1800-1801 | |
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| The Jeffersonian Era Begins, 1801-1809 | |
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| The Party Stands Alone, 1809-1827 | |
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| Jacksonian Democracy, 1828-1836 | |
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| Jacksonianism without Jackson, 1837-1844 | |
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| Manifest Destiny, War and Compromise, 1845-1852 | |
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| The Party Self-Destructs, 1853-1860 | |
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| Civil War and Peace Democrats, 1861-1868 | |
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| On the Road to Party Recovery, 1881-1896 | |
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| The Bryan Era, 1896-1912 | |
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| Wilson and the New Freedom, 1912-1915 | |
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| The Great War Tests the Party, 1916-1920 | |
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| The Sidewalks of New York, 1920-1933 | |
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| FDR and the New Deal, 1933-1939 | |
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| The Democracy Fights Fascism, 1939-1945 | |
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| Truman: The Buck Stops Here, 1945-1948 | |
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| The Fair Deal, and End of an Era, 1949-1952 | |
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| In the Shadow of a War Hero, 1953-1960 | |
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| JFK: The Party Bounces Back, 1960 | |
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| The Beginning and End of the New Frontier, 1961-1963 | |
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| LBJ: Rise and Fall of the Great Society, 1963-1968 | |
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| Democratic Cataclysm, 1968 | |
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| Reform, but Not Revival, 1968-1974 | |
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| Post-Watergate Interlude, 1974-1980 | |
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| Bucking the Reagan Revolution, 1981-1984 | |
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| A Time for Party Soul-Searching, 1985-1991 | |
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| A Different Kind of Democrat, 1992 | |
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| Looking Like America, 1993-1996 | |
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| Democratic Phoenix, 1997-1999 | |
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| Calamity in 2000 | |
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| Epilogue: The Democratic Road Ahead | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |