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Author Batchelor, John Calvin.

Title Ain't you glad you joined the Republicans? : a short history of the GOP / John Calvin Batchelor.

Imprint New York : Henry Holt, 1996.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  324.2734 B314a 1996    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description 399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. "Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans?" 1854-1865 -- 2. The Fall of the Radicals -- The Rise of the GOP 1866-1894 -- 3. "That Damned Cowboy!" -- The Amazing Accident of Teddy Roosevelt 1896-1919 -- 4. Boom! Bust! -- FDR Buries the GOP 1920-1944 -- 5. Cold Warriors -- I Like Ike! Nixon's the One! The Great Communicator! 1946-1992 -- Postscript: Republican Sunrise.
Summary John Calvin Batchelor's "Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans?" (Abraham Lincoln's 1860 campaign slogan) is the truth, and nothing but the unbelievable truth, of the Grand Old Party of the Republic. Born in the cataclysm of the antislavery movement, the Republican Party was from the first - and remains today - the most successful revolutionary party in the history of democracy. And the Party's story - from Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt to Nixon, Reagan, and Gingrich - is the pageant of American politics. Using primary sources long overlooked by traditional historians and employing a novelist's eye and ear for the telling detail, Batchelor, in his sweeping narrative, encompasses one and a half centuries of Republican battle and paradox.
Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) (OCoLC)fst00544975
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0805032673 (alk. paper)
9780805032673 (alk. paper)

 
    
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