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Title: The Democrats
Condition: New
EAN: 9781608461929
ISBN: 9781608461929
Edition: Revised
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 07/08/2012
Item Height: 215mm
Item Length: 143mm
Item Weight: 368g
Author: Lance Selfa
Language: English
Subtitle: A Critical History (Updated edition)
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Law & Politics
Release Year: 2012
Description: Offering a broad historical perspective, Selfa shows how the Democratic Party has time and again betrayed the aspirations of ordinary people while pursuing an agenda favorable to Wall Street and U.S. imperial ambitions.He examines the relationship between party leaders and social movements, from the civil rights struggle to the movement to end the Iraq war; reveals the unhappy marriage between U.S. labor and the party of the people;” and assesses the mixed record of attempts to build a third party alternative.Further, Selfa argues that the Democrats’ record of backing the rich and breaking promises to its voting base is not a recent departure from an otherwise laudable past, but results from its role as one of two parties serving the interests of the U.S. establishment.

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