A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have l

Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.

This book investigates the creation of the first truly nationalized party organizations in the United States in the late nineteenth century, an innovation that

A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have l

"In today's hyper-partisan America, the party divide seems to loom over every facet of life, political or not. Yet central as they are, parties have proved unab