A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. history, driven by vibrant campaigns that drew our highest-ever vo.
The results were the loudest, closest, most violent elections in U.
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Shaken by economic and technological disruption, they sought safety in aggressive, tribal partisanship.
Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War.
Democracy was broken.
A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics