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Author: K. Trautman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.475kg
ISBN: 9780230102743
ISBN 10: 0230102743
Pages: 265
Publication Date: 21 July 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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<p>“A must-read for Democrats who can’t explain why they are Democrats and Republicans who can’t explain why their BIG DOG tactics often lose to UNDERDOGS. This remarkably researched book is essential for educators of today and their students who are the future of America’s political system.”--Phil Jones, Retired CBS News Correspondent, and Contributing Correspondent, PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly <p>“Trautman’s work is a careful analysis of the often-contentious embrace of the underdog by the Democratic Party. Casting itself in this role has resulted historically in opening the party to a wide-variety of differing interests, personalities, and styles. The self-identification of such groups as ‘underdogs’ places the party under various obligations to ‘contest others’ in re-establishing a desired condition of relative equality within which the presumed underdog can prosper and imparting a unique character to Ame
<p> A must-read for Democrats who can't explain why they are Democrats and Republicans who can't explain why their BIG DOG tactics often lose to UNDERDOGS. This remarkably researched book is essential for educators of today and their students who are the future of America's political system. --Phil Jones, Retired CBS News Correspondent, and Contributing Correspondent, PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly <p> Trautman's work is a careful analysis of the often-contentious embrace of the underdog by the Democratic Party. Casting itself in this role has resulted historically in opening the party to a wide-variety of differing interests, personalities, and styles. The self-identification of such groups as 'underdogs' places the party under various obligations to 'contest others' in re-establishing a desired condition of relative equality within which the presumed underdog can prosper and imparting a unique character to American liberalism. Throughout, Trautman displays a fine sense for the n
A must-read for Democrats who can't explain why they are Democrats and Republicans who can't explain why their BIG DOG tactics often lose to UNDERDOGS. This remarkably researched book is essential for educators of today and their students who are the future of America's political system. --Phil Jones, Retired CBS News Correspondent, and Contributing Correspondent, PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly Trautman's work is a careful analysis of the often-contentious embrace of the underdog by the Democratic Party. Casting itself in this role has resulted historically in opening the party to a wide-variety of differing interests, personalities, and styles. The self-identification of such groups as 'underdogs' places the party under various obligations to 'contest others' in re-establishing a desired condition of relative equality within which the presumed underdog can prosper and imparting a unique character to American liberalism. Throughout, Trautman displays a fine sense for the nuances with which American liberalism is continuously constructed and reconstructed, and illustrates with apt and plentiful examples the complex pathways the American underdog travels in the endless search for achievement and fulfillment. --Deane Neubauer, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Manoa Karl G. Trautman's The Underdog in American Politics is a thorough and sweeping portrayal of one of the animating values of American culture and its symbiotic evolution with the Democratic Party over two centuries. The book illustrates a crucial fulcrum of political conflict, one that is claimed by progressives and Tea Party advocates alike. Ranging from Jacksonian politics to the age of Obama, Trautman presents a well crafted narrative of the underdog's place in the American political story. This will serve as a very useful text for college classes on political parties and American ideology. -- Paul Petterson, Chair, Department of Political Science, Central Co
Author Information
KARL G. TRAUTMAN is Chairperson of the Social Science Department at Central Maine Community College, USA.
