To make men free
Subtitle: a history of the Republican Party
By: Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher: Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780465024315
Subjects: Politics and government; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); History
Description: "In To Make Men Free, celebrated historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, showing how Republicans' ideological vacillations have had terrible repercussions for minorities, the middle class, and America at large."--from publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The west as a land of promise; title: Government of the people, by the people, for the people; title: Republicans or radicals?; title: Abandoning equality; title: Republicans and big business; title: Republicans become liberals; title: The business of America is business; title: Republicans and the New Deal; title: A new Republican vision; title: The rise of movement conservatism; title: Movement conservatives capture the GOP; title: The west as an idea.