| The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America Contributor(s): Brownstein, Ronald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143114328 ISBN-13: 9780143114321 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: From one of Americas most respected political commentators comes an epic, shrewd, and important big-picture analysis of the forces that have made this era in American politics as divisive and bitterly partisan as any since the Civil War. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 973.931 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.30 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened? In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic, and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling politics into the margins and leaving precious little common ground for compromise. The Second Civil War is not a book for Democrats or Republicans but for all Americans who are disturbed by our current political dysfunction and hungry for ways to understand it--and move beyond it. |