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The two-party system nobody asked for / Robert Lockwood Mills.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, Robert Lockwood, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
- Democratic Party (U.S.).
- Political parties--United States--History.
- Political parties.
- History.
- Two-party systems.
- United States.
- Two-party systems--United States--History.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Politics and government.
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--History.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 236 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Publishing, [2019]
- Contents:
- George Washington was prescient
- A two-party system that nobody asked for
- A new two-party system (that nobody asked for)
- The fabulous fifties and dysfunctional sixties
- Of party bosses and primary elections
- The Donald and the Andrew
- Media (plural noun) vs. media (singular noun)
- Rules of the (political) game
- Attacking the two-party trust
- Failed third parties in history
- All politics is local, and other myths
- A court ruling worse than Citizens United?
- Voter fraud, electoral fraud, and fraudulent people
- How television, blogs, and social media affect politics
- Bucking the two-party system
- The endorsement game
- Of Senate rules and Supreme Court nominations
- Wall Street and the two-party system
- The two-party system and the First Amendment
- God, the media, and the two-party system
- Of dinos and rinos
- The two-party system and big-time sports
- The two-party system and the Supreme Court
- The two-party system and the 25th Amendment
- Partisanship and deep pockets
- The war on Christmas and other political wars
- The two-party system and mother nature
- The two-party system and gender wars
- Partisanship vs. non-partisanship
- The two-party system makes strange bedfellows
- Nobody is allowed to be an independent
- 'Judge not, lest you be judged non-partisan'
- The two-party system is bad for one's health
- The man who upset the two-party duopoly
- Party-switchers don't hurt the duopoly
- The mid-terms settle nothing
- Those inscrutable Florida voters
- Gerrymandering and the courts
- The new political landscape
- Possible third-party candidacies in 2020
- The elephant(s) in the room
- Another potential elephant
- A radical idea from a radical centrist
- Until it happens
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mills, Robert Lockwood. Two-Party System Nobody Asked For.
- ISBN:
- 9781628943542
- 1628943548
- 9781628943801
- 1628943807
- OCLC:
- 1082296960
- Publisher Number:
- 99981802310
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