Present discontents : American politics in the very late twentieth century /
Shafer, Byron E.
Chatham, N.J. : Chatham House Publishers,
c1997.
Revised versions of lectures delivered at Oxford University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foundation stones of present discontents: the American political nation, 1776-1945 / Joel H. Silby -- Our country: the shaping of America from Roosevelt to Clinton / Michael Barone -- Separating to govern: the American way / Charles O. Jones -- Mayor Daley and modern democracy: what we should have learned from Chicago in the 1950s / Alan Ehrenhalt -- Issue evolution in postwar American politics: old certainties and fresh tensions / Edward G. Carmines and Geoffrey C. Layman -- The cultural revolution of 1994: Newt Gingrich, the Republican party, and the thrid great awakening / Thomas B. Edsall -- "We are all Southern Democrats now": the shape of American politics in the very late twentieth century / Byron E. Shafer.