The Cacophony of Politics

The Cacophony of Politics
Title The Cacophony of Politics PDF eBook
Author J. Matthew Gallman
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 565
Release 2021-11-09
Genre History
ISBN 0813946573

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The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. A comprehensive overview, this book reveals the myriad complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in 1864. The party’s famous slogan "The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is" was meant to have broad appeal and promote solidarity among Northern Democrats by invoking their core ideological commitments to nationalism, law and order, tradition, and strict construction. But, as J. Matthew Gallman shows, the slogan was a poor reflection of the volatile, fluid, messy, and improvisational reality of political life for men and women, across the public and private spheres. Democrats experienced the war as a cascading series of dilemmas, for which their slogan did not always offer guidance or resolution. Offering a definitive account of the Democratic Party in the North, The Cacophony of Politics shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War—and the nature of nineteenth-century political culture—confounded the Democrats’ self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially over the central issue of slavery. A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era

The Unheavenly Chorus

The Unheavenly Chorus
Title The Unheavenly Chorus PDF eBook
Author Kay Lehman Schlozman
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 727
Release 2012
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0691154848

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Examining the current state of democracy in the United States, 'The Unheavenly Chorus' looks at the political participation of individual citizens - alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests - in order to demonstrate that American democracy is marred by ingrained and persistent class-based inequality.

The Spectacle of Critique

The Spectacle of Critique
Title The Spectacle of Critique PDF eBook
Author Tom Boland
Publisher Routledge
Pages 325
Release 2018-07-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1351347306

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Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation and denunciation around all political issues. The technique of unmasking ‘power’ or ‘hegemony’ or ‘ideology’ has now been adopted across the political spectrum, where critical discourses are routinely used to suggest that anything and everything is only a ‘construct’ or even a ‘conspiracy’. This book draws on anthropological theory to provide a different perspective on this phenomenon; critique appears as a liminal predicament combining imitative polemical and schismatic urges with a haunting sense of uncertainty. It thereby addresses a central academic concern, with a special focus on political critique in the public sphere and within social media. Combining historical interrogations of the roots of critique, as well as examining contemporary political discourse in relation to populism, as seen in presidential elections, historical commemorations and welfare reform, The Spectacle of Critique uses anthropology and genealogy to offer a new sociology of critique that problematises critique and diagnoses its crisis, cultivating acritical and imaginative ways of thinking.

Politics

Politics
Title Politics PDF eBook
Author Hendrik Hertzberg
Publisher Penguin
Pages 724
Release 2005-06-28
Genre History
ISBN 1101200928

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Cause for jubilation: One of America’s wisest and most necessary voices has distilled what he knows about politics, broadly speaking, into one magnificent volume. Here at last are Henrik Hertzberg’s most significant, hilarious, and devastating dispatches from the American scene he has chronicled for four decades with an uncanny blend of moral seriousness, high spirits, and perfect rhetorical pitch. Politics is at once the story of American life from LBJ to GWB and a testament to the power of the written word in the right hands. In those hands, politics encompasses everyone from Jerry Garcia to Rush Limbaugh, every place from New Hampshire to Nicaragua, and everything from Playboy vs. Penthouse to Bush vs. Gore. Hendrik Hertzberg breaks down American politics into its component parts—campaigns, debates, rhetoric, the media, wars (cultural, countercultural, and real), high crimes and misdemeanors, the right, and more. Each section begins with a new piece of writing framing the subject at hand and contains the choicest, most illuminating pieces from his body of work. Politics is a tour of the defining moments of American life from the mid-’60s till the mid-’00s, a ride though recent American history with one of the most insightful and engaging guides imaginable, a writer who consistently makes us see more clearly and feel more deeply. “Politics is invaluable for all sorts of reasons—chief among them being decades of elegant writing in the service of surgical intelligence.”—Toni Morrison

Lincoln and the Democrats

Lincoln and the Democrats
Title Lincoln and the Democrats PDF eBook
Author Mark E. Neely
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 225
Release 2017-02-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1107036267

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This book explains the behavior of a two-party system during war - emphasizing the Democrats' role in the Civil War.

Shari'a Politics

Shari'a Politics
Title Shari'a Politics PDF eBook
Author Robert W. Hefner
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 346
Release 2011-04-04
Genre History
ISBN 0253223105

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One of the most important developments in Muslim politics in recent years has been the spread of movements calling for the implementation of Shari'a or Islamic law. Shari'a Politics maps the ideals and organization of these movements and examines their implications for the future of democracy, citizen rights, and gender relations in the Muslim world. These studies of eight Muslim-majority societies, and state-of-the-field reflections by leading experts, provide the first comparative investigation of movements for and against implementation of Shari'a. These essays reveal that the Muslim public's interest in Shari'a does not spring from an unchanging devotion to received religious tradition, but from an effort to respond to the central political and ethical questions of the day. -- Publisher description.

The Cacophony of Politics

The Cacophony of Politics
Title The Cacophony of Politics PDF eBook
Author J. Matthew Gallman
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2021
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 9780813946566

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"This book charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War"--