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UNINA9910463387203321 |
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Phillips Kevin <1940-> |
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Titolo |
The emerging Republican majority / / Kevin P. Phillips |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxford, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Edizione |
[Updated edition with a New Preface] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (599 p.) |
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Collana |
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James Madison Library in American Politics |
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PhillipsKevin P |
WilentzSean |
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Soggetti |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism |
Electronic books. |
United States Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- General Editor's Introduction -- Preface to the Princeton University Press Edition -- Preface to the 1970 paperback edition -- I. Introduction -- II. The Northeast -- III. The South -- IV. The Heartland -- V. The Pacific States -- VI. The Future of American Politics -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968-and why the Republicans would go on to dominate presidential politics for the next quarter century. Rightly or wrongly, the book has widely been seen as a blueprint for how Republicans, using the so-called Southern Strategy, could build a durable winning coalition in presidential elections. Certainly, Nixon's election marked the end of a "New Deal Democratic hegemony" and the beginning of a conservative realignment encompassing historically Democratic voters from the South and the Florida-to-California "Sun Belt," in the book's enduring coinage. In accounting for that shift, Kevin Phillips showed how two decades and more of social and political changes had created enormous opportunities for a resurgent conservative Republican Party. For this |
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