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Jan 2, 2015 · What is the proper role of government? A history of the Republican Party traces its responses to that question. ... Page 10 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: From Abe Lincoln to Ted Cruz.
Mar 17, 2024 · By Jim Heffernan I am a sucker for history and Heather Cox Richardson is a favorite of mine. She is a history professor at Boston University and the author of 7 books. This is her fifth book. She also writes a delightful daily column, “Letters from America”. I found her history of the Republican party fascinating. I never quite realized the cyclic nature of the party until her book. Since ...
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Jan 19, 2017 · To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, ... This book, intended as a kind of explainer, wound up producing a powerful critique of supply-side economics, the dominant theory of the GOP ...
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Oct 3, 2014 · The book offers a lively survey of Republican politics in all its diversity, from the “transformational presidency” of Abraham Lincoln (to borrow a 21st-century term) to the conservative ...
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Sep 23, 2014 · Richardson (History/Boston Coll.; Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, 2010, etc.) makes a bold, pertinent argument that the Republican Party has always been beset by contradictions within its core as a result of the founding tension between the belief in equality of opportunity and the protection of property. She ...
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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. Richardson, a ...
Sep 1, 2014 · Heather Cox Richardson. 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 ...
