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Party of the PeopleJules WitcoverAfter more than two centuries of sometimes stormy, always intriguing history, the Democratic Party of the United States survives as the oldest political organization in the world. In <i>Party of the People</i>, veteran political chronicler Jules Witcover traces the Democratic Party’s evolution, from its roots in the agrarian, individualistic concepts of Thomas Jefferson to its emergence as today’s progressive party of social change and economic justice. Witcover describes the Democrats' dramatic struggle to deÞne themselves and shares with us half a century of personal observation of the party through its most turbulent times.<br> <br> First called, oddly enough, the Republican Party but later known as the Democratic-Republican Party and eventually the Democratic Party, this creature of Jefferson and James Madison evolved from an early ideological and personal struggle with the commerce-minded Alexander Hamilton. Seasoned by the populism of Andrew Jackson, the party was nearly undone by the “peculiar institution” of slavery in the South, which led to the birth of the rival Republican Party and to the Civil War. Half a century later, America emerged
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- Author
- Witcover, Jules
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375507427
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (80 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14