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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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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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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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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...
Sep 1, 2014 · Heather Cox Richardson. 4.26. 581 ratings95 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.
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- Heather Cox Richardson
Sep 6, 2022 · Books. The Long Unraveling of the Republican Party. Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump. By Kim Phillips-Fein. Illustration by Paul Spella*...
Sep 26, 2014 · For the most part this book offers a detailed analytical and objective history of the Republican Party from its founding to the beginning of the Obama administration. Its focus is on the national party so that it deals largely with presidential elections and policies pursued by the Republicans on a national level.
- Lewis L. Gould