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Oct 3, 2014 · As a Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt (pictured in 1917) pushed for new labor laws and established food and drug regulation. (Brown Brothers/via AP) Here’s a good rule of thumb for...
- Beverly Gage
Jan 2, 2015 · In 1962, the political scientist James Q. Wilson wrote that parties “perform, to some degree, at least three functions in a democratic government. They recruit candidates, mobilize voters and...
Jan 19, 2017 · To trace the story of how the Republican Party began as a progressive and even radical force for social and economic egalitarianism, and evolved into a reactionary faction advocating ideas...
- Political Columnist, Intelligencer
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
Sep 23, 2014 · A new history of the Republican Party as a relentless pull by big-business interests has cast it farther and farther from its noble founding principles. How did the party of Abraham Lincoln—dedicated to checking the spread of Southern “Slave Power” in the West and to expanding the vision of freedom and opportunity among the larger pool of ...
- Kirkus Reviews
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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Sep 23, 2014 · 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.
