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Summary:

Explores the origins of the Republican Party's shift from a party of moderation to one of extremism, beginning in the early 1960s with President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address.

Table of Contents:

• The widening gyre: the Republican party at the 1960 convention
• Things fall apart: Advance Magazine and the decay of the moderate establishment, 1961-63
• The center cannot hold: the Republican primaries of 1964
• The blood-dimmed tide is loosed: the GOP and the Goldwater campaign, 1964
• The ceremony of innocence is drowned: moderates attempt to regain control of the GOP, 1965
• Full of passionate intensity: from rat finks to Reagan, 1966
• The best lack all conviction: moderation's zenith and George Romney's rise and fall, 1967
• Mere anarchy: moderate half-victories and the agonies of 1968
• Some revelation is at hand: Richard Nixon's first year in office, 1969
• The rough beast: Nixon and the breakup of the moderate Republican movement, 1970
• Darkness drops: moderate Republican decline from Nixon to Ford to Reagan, 1971-80
• Slouching toward Bethlehem: the collapse of the moderate Republicans, 1980-2010.

Author/Creator:

Kabaservice, Geoffrey M.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Rule and ruin: the downfall of moderation and the destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party [by Kabaservice, G.M.]

Related Series:

Oxford studies in postwar American political development

Subjects:

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

United States — Politics and government — 1945-1989

United States — Politics and government — 1989-

Since 1854

Politics and government

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-465) and index.

Physical Description:

xx, 482 pages ; 25 cm.

Call Numbers:

JK2356 .K33 2012

ISBNs:

9780199768400 (hardcover, alk. paper)
0199768404 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011016422

OCLC Numbers:

712983640