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Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic

byJay Cost

A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party. Spoiled Rotten rests its case on archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, making room for uncertainty while explaining what the surviving evidence can establish. Spoiled Rotten also examines the assumptions surrounding its subject, connecting them to wider arguments in political science. The book leaves readers with a clearer understanding of how the politics of patronage corrupted the once noble democratic party and now threatens and of the unresolved questions that continue beyond its final chapter.

Publisher

Broadside Books

Publication date

2012

Format

Print edition

Pages

355

ISBN

9780062041159