The Transformation of the Republican Party, 1912–1936 : From Reform to Resistance / Clyde P. Weed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weed, Clyde P., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Traces and explains the transformation of the GOP in the 1920s and ‘30s from a party that was once a modernizing force to one that, by 1936, had become an obstacle to reform.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: What Happened to the Republicans?

1 The Republican Party and the National Idea

2 World War I and the Presidential Election of 1916

3 The GOP in the Last Arcadia of the 1920s

4 The Associational State and the Transformation of the GOP

5 The Rush Past Republican Associationalism, 1929–1932

6 The Forgotten Republican Campaign of 1932

7 The 1934 Congressional Campaign: The Counterrevolution That Was Not

8 The Stillborn Republican Revival of 1935–1936

9 The Breakdown of Republican Electoral Evaluations and the Realignment of the 1930s

10 The New Deal’s Critics: What Was Said Then and Why It Still Matters

11 Reconsidering the Republican Experience of the 1930s

Bibliography

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

1-68585-753-1

OCLC:

1334344339