Indivisible

Indivisible: how America divided against itself

by Walsh, Joan

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"This book began as a political history of the 60s and 70s, with a particular focus on why Americans have let our nation decline in almost every measurable way since then, and sometimes even cheered on those who engineered that decline. I wanted to tell it the way I saw it growing up, watching many of my working-class Irish relatives forsake the Democrats, a party they saw as forsaking them. But my family's story, and that of the Democratic Party, turned out to be more complicated"--

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  • Full title :Indivisible : how America divided against itself / by Joan Walsh.

Summary

"This book began as a political history of the 60s and 70s, with a particular focus on why Americans have let our nation decline in almost every measurable way since then, and sometimes even cheered on those who engineered that decline. I wanted to tell it the way I saw it growing up, watching many of my working-class Irish relatives forsake the Democrats, a party they saw as forsaking them. But my family's story, and that of the Democratic Party, turned out to be more complicated"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Wiley
  • Place of Publication:Hoboken, N.J
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2012.

Notes

Machine generated contents note: PrologueIntroductionPart I. Fact-checking a Fractured Irish FairytalePart II. Growing Up in NixonlandPart III. The Loneliness of the Reagan-era Do-GooderPart IV. Not Quite the Beloved Community Just YetEpilogueAcknowledgmentsIndex.

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  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781118225448, 1118225449, 9781118237243, 1118237242, 9781118263587, 1118263588
  • oclc:ocn774024210
  • LC Classification:E839.5
  • Dewey Decimal:973.91

Table of Contents

What's the Matter with White People?: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Fact-Checking a Fractured Irish Fairy Tale; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Part II: Growing Up in Nixonland; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; Part III: The Loneliness of the Reagan-Era Do-Gooder; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; Part IV: Some of My Best Presidents Are Black; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; Part V: What's the Matter with White People?; 25; 26; Acknowledgments; Index.

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Democratic Party (U.S.) États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement… History Irish Americans -- Politics and governm… Political culture Political culture -- History -- 20th ce… Political Science -- General Politics and government United States United States -- Politics and governmen… Walsh, Joan

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Walsh, Joan

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