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  1. Jan 2, 2015 · William J. Smith/Associated Press. By Jonathan Rauch. Jan. 2, 2015. America does not have a broken political system. It has a broken political party: the Republicans. In 1962, the political ...

  2. Sep 1, 2014 · 4.26. 591 ratings97 reviews. 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. Yet while visionary Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower shared Lincoln’s ...

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  4. Oct 3, 2014 · Advertisement. This article was published more than 9 years ago. Opinion Review: ‘To Make Men Free,’ Republican Party history, by Heather Cox Richardson. By Beverly Gage. October 3, 2014 at...

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  5. Sep 23, 2014 · In To Make Men Free, the eminent political historian Heather Cox Richardson superbly brings the Republican Party's history to life, while offering sharp and often surprising interpretations of its rises and declines, when it heeded Lincoln's legacy and when it did not.”―

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  6. Sep 23, 2014 · In To Make Men Free, celebrated historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, revealing the insidious...

  7. Sep 25, 2014 · Her book, “To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party,” is the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses. The result isn’t always pretty.

  8. Sep 19, 2014 · For Republicans wondering how best to position the party for the elections of 2014 and 2016, Heather Cox Richardson has an answer: Follow the lead of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and...

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