The Democratic Party : documents decoded /
Through an examination of key historical documents, this book chronicles the Democratic Party’s complete transformation from the small-government, Jeffersonian party to a party of activist government and social progressivism during the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, California ; Denver, Colorado ; Oxford, England :
ABC-CLIO,
[2014]
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| Series: | Documents decoded.
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| Summary: | Through an examination of key historical documents, this book chronicles the Democratic Party’s complete transformation from the small-government, Jeffersonian party to a party of activist government and social progressivism during the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Supplies a chronological history of the Democratic Party over the course of more than two centuries as told in documents; covers presidential and party rhetoric ranging from George Washington’s 1796 farewell address to Barack Obama’s 2013 inaugural address; and details the transformation of the Democratic Party from a small-government party that supported slavery and segregation to a progressive party that defends civil rights and provided the nation’s first African-American president. - Publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxv, 281 pages ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781610696432 1610696433 |