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Presents A History Of The Democratic Party In The United States That Examines Tragic Decline Of The Coalition That Has Long Since Abandoned Its Jacksonian Ideals. Why Have The Democrats Gone Form Being The People's Party Of Reform To The Party Of Special-interest Carve-outs? In Spoiled Rotten, Political Analyst Jay Cost Tells The Story Of The Modern Democratic Party From The End Of The Civil War To The Present, Tracing The Sad Decline Of A Once Noble Political Coalition That Is No Longer Capable Of Living Up To Its Lofty Ideals. When Andrew Jackson Formed The Democratic Party In 1928, He Promised To Stand Up For The Little Guy Against The Rile Of Privileged Elites. What Has Become Of This Promise? According To Cost, Recent History Has Shown The Democrats To Be Anything But The Part Of And For The People. Instead, They Have Become A Collection Of Special-interest Groups Feeding Off The Federal Government, Exchanging Votes For Subsidies And Benefits. With The Creation Of A Partisan Spoils System In The Nineteenth Century, Both Parties Practiced The Politics Of Patronage.^ But, Starting With The New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Used The Power Of Big Government To Transform Whole Cl
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- Author
- Cost, Jay
- Publisher
- New York: Broadside Books
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062041159
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (38 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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