Indivisible
Subtitle: how America divided against itself
By: by Joan Walsh
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781118141069
Subjects: Politics and government; Irish Americans; Political culture; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Democratic Party (U.S.); History
Description: "This book began as a political history of the 60s and 70s, with a particular focus on why Americans have let our nation decline in almost every measurable way since then, and sometimes even cheered on those who engineered that decline. I wanted to tell it the way I saw it growing up, watching many of my working-class Irish relatives forsake the Democrats, a party they saw as forsaking them. But my family's story, and that of the Democratic Party, turned out to be more complicated"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PrologueIntroductionPart I. Fact-checking a Fractured Irish FairytalePart II. Growing Up in NixonlandPart III. The Loneliness of the Reagan-era Do-GooderPart IV. Not Quite the Beloved Community Just YetEpilogueAcknowledgmentsIndex.