- Description
- xx, 482 p.; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Studies in postwar American political development
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in postwar American political development.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-465) and index.
- 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: moderations' 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-2217
- ISBN
- 9780199768400 (hc.)
- 0199768404 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2011016422
- OCLC
- 769620093
- Author
Kabaservice, Geoffrey M.
- Title
Rule and ruin : the downfall of moderation and the destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party / Geoffrey Kabaservice.
- Imprint
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Series
Studies in postwar American political development
Oxford studies in postwar American political development.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-465) and index.
- Chronological Term
Geschichte 1960-2010.
- Research Call Number
JFE 12-2217