Introduction: The American polity and its regimes -- The deferential-Republican regime -- Old ways and new -- The Republican revolution -- From factions to parties -- The party-Democratic regime : the Democratic polity -- The culture of Democratic party politics -- Governing a democratic polity -- Crisis -- The party-Democratic regime : the industrial polity -- The age of the politicos -- A state of parties and courts -- The progressive interlude -- The populist-bureaucratic regime -- The rise of the populist-bureaucratic regime -- Bureaucracy and democracy -- Populism and party -- Epilogue: Today and tomorrow
Summary
When historians take the long view, they look at "ages" or "eras" (the Age of Jackson, the Progressive Era). But these time spans last no longer than a decade or so. In this groundbreaking new book, Morton Keller divides our nation's history into three regimes, each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate, as never before, the slow steady evolution of American public life. Americans like to think of our society as eternally young and effervescent. But the reality is very different. A proper history of America must be as much about continuity, persistenc
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index
