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Author Lofgren, Mike.

Title The party is over : how Republicans went crazy, Democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted / Mike Lofgren.

Imprint New York : Viking, 2012.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  324.273 L826p 2012    ---  Available
Description viii, 232 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-225) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The party of Lincoln, the party of Jefferson -- Tactics: war minus the shooting -- All wrapped up in the constitution -- A devil's dictionary -- Taxes and the rich -- Worshipping at the altar of Mars -- Media complicity -- Give me that old time religion -- No eggheads wanted -- A low, dishonest decade -- Are the Democrats any better? -- A way out?.
Summary Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, "The Party Is Over" is a funny and impassioned expose of everything that is wrong with Washington.
Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 20th century.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 21st century.
Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History -- 21st century.
Political parties -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political parties -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN 9780670026265
0670026263

 
    
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