What It Took to Win

A leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for "moral capitalism," from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden.
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The Democratic Party is the world's oldest mass political organization. Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, it has played a central role in defining American society, whether it was exercising power or contesting it. But what has the party stood for through the centuries, and how has it managed to succeed in elections and govern?
In What It Took to Win, l'eminent historiador Michael Kazin identifica i valora el compromís de llarga durada del partit per crear un "capitalisme moral", un sistema que barrejava la llibertat empresarial amb el benestar dels treballadors i consumidors. I, tanmateix, el mateix partit que va defensar el...