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Jan 19, 2017 · To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, by Heather Cox Richardson. To trace the story of how the Republican Party began as a progressive and even radical force for social and...
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Sep 23, 2014 · View Kindle Edition. When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics.
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Sep 13, 2022 · View Kindle Edition. #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia. A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited ...
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Jan 2, 2015 · The book begins, as it should, with Abraham Lincoln and his compatriots, who founded the Republican Party amid the wreckage of the short-lived Whigs. The Whigs, in turn, traced their...
Nov 4, 2003 · In this exciting new book, the Þrst comprehensive history of the Republicans in 40 years, Lewis L. Gould traces the evolution of the Grand Old Party from its emergence as an antislavery coalition in the 1850s to its current role as the champion of political and social conservatism.
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- Lewis Gould
Oct 3, 2014 · Review: ‘To Make Men Free,’ Republican Party history, by Heather Cox Richardson. By Beverly Gage. October 3, 2014 at 4:16 p.m. EDT. As a Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt (pictured in ...
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and its spread to new territories and states. Today, under the sway of Donald Trump, it is hardly recognizable as the party of Lincoln or even the party of Eisenhower. How and why has the Republican Party changed so drastically?
