Hope in the Desert
Eric Foner: Democratic Party Blues, 12 May 2022
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
by Michael Kazin.
Farrar, Straus, 396 pp., $35, March,978 0 374 20023 7 Show More
by Michael Kazin.
Farrar, Straus, 396 pp., $35, March,
“... system’ whereby party functionaries were rewarded with government jobs, and, in Andrew Jackson, a charismatic leader.The intense competition between Democrats and their rivals – the Whigs, and then Republicans – galvanised popular participation in politics. Political leaders became folk heroes, with nicknames like the Great Compromiser (Henry ... ”