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  1. 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 it...

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  2. Sep 1, 2014 · 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. Jan 2, 2015 · 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 scientist James Q. Wilson wrote that...

  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. Sep 23, 2014 · Basic Books, Sep 23, 2014 - History - 416 pages. From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los...

  8. Sep 1, 2015 · Book Reviews. Heather Cox Richardson traces the history of two opposing ideas that have animated the Republican party since its founding (and, her evidence indicates, American politics more generally): a belief in a federally secured equality of opportunity versus the protection of wealth.

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