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Jan 2, 2015 · Richardson seems determined to cast the Republican Party’s history as a morality play pitting egalitarian, pro-government good guys against plutocratic, anti-government bad guys.
Sep 25, 2014 · By the 1950s, the party had been shut out of the presidency for a generation until Dwight Eisenhower’s immense popularity — it helped to have been the man responsible for defeating Hitler —...
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Mar 17, 2024 · Since the 1850’s, the Republican party has been defined by a struggle between equality and property. Lincoln, Theodore Rosevelt, and Eisenhower fully embraced the goal of equality. Other Republican presidents have consistently favored property. There’s a lot of history to unwrap in this book.
Sep 1, 2014 · A good, brief account of the 160 year history of the US Republican Party and its struggle to reconcile constitutional property rights with the principle of equality promoted in the Declaration of Independence.
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- Heather Cox Richardson
Oct 3, 2014 · A century ago, Republicans were likely to be the country’s big-government progressives, its advocates of civil rights and social reform. Democrats were often small-government conservatives,...
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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.”―
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...
