The Emerging Democratic Majority (Lisa Drew Books)
Publisher: Scribner
Published: August 27, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780743226912
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Politics/International Relations; Political; Liberalism; U.S. Practical Politics; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Politics and government; USA; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Government - U.S. Government; Political Process - Elections; Political Science / General; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-; United States; 2001-; Democratic Party (U.S.)
First sentence: In 1969, a year after Richard Nixon won the presidency, Kevin Phillips, an aide to Attorney General John Mitchell, published a book entitled The Emerging Republican Majority.
Description: "At the end of the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new era. His book The Emerging Republican Majority became an indispensable guide for conservatives through the 1970s and 1980s - and, indeed, for all those attempting to understand political change at the time. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the presidency and the House in Republican hands, political experts John B.

Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data - demographic, geographic, economic, and political - to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. Their book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, is the guide to this era."--BOOK JACKET.