A raucous history of American Democracy at its wildest--and a bold rethinking of the relationship between the people and Their politics.
Only by exploring where that civility and restraint came from can we understand what is happening to our Democracy to.
This is the origin story of the normal politics of the 20th century.
Americans\' voting rates crashed and never fully recovered.
They built a calmer, cleaner democracy, but also a more distant one.
At the century\'s end, reformers finally restrained this wild system, trading away participation for civility in the process. history, driven by vibrant campaigns that drew our highest-ever voter turnouts.
The results were the loudest, closest, most violent elections in U.
S.
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.
In telling the tale of what it cost to cool our republic, historian Jon Grinspan reveals our divisive political system\'s enduring capacity to reinvent itself.
Through Their friendships and feuds, campaigns and crusades, Will and Florie trace the narrative of a Democracy in crisis.
The radical congressman William Pig Iron Kelley and his fiery, Progressive daughter Florence Kelley led lives packed with drama, intimately tied to Their nation\'s politics.
The Age of Acrimony charts the rise and fall of 19th-century America\'s unruly politics through the lives of a remarkable father-daughter dynasty.
Only by exploring where that civility and restraint came from can we understand what is happening to our Democracy today.
This is the origin story of the normal politics of the 20th century.
Americans\' voting rates crashed and never fully recovered.
They built a calmer, cleaner democracy, but also a more distant one.
At the century\'s end, reformers finally restrained this wild system, trading away participation for civility in the process. history, driven by vibrant campaigns that drew our highest-ever voter turnouts.
The results were the loudest, closest, most violent elections in U.
S.
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 raucous history of American Democracy at its wildest--and a bold rethinking of the relationship between the people and Their politics
