Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power the Drive for Permanent Power

by Thomas B. Edsall

Overview

This powerful examination of the present and future of American politics, by one of America's most distinguished political journalists, reveals how the Republican Party has gained a long-term institutional advantage that allows it to shrug off apparent setbacks like the 2006 elections. Building Red America takes us deeper than any previous book into the operations of the power brokers and issues that galvanize voters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780465003938
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	03/19/2007
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	599 KB

About the Author

Thomas B. Edsall covered national politics for twenty-five years at the Washington Post. He is now a correspondent for the New Republic and the National Journal. He was a guest columnist in 2006 for the New York Times, and holds the Pulitzer-Moore Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at Columbia University in New York. His previous book, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1992. He lives in New York and Washington, D.C.

Editorial Reviews

"Brilliantly illuminates the Democratic Party's mistakes and its problems.... Should be read by anyone with an interest in American politics."

"Easily the best book on the politics of race in recent years...ambitious and unsettling."

"Edsall has been reporting the nuts and guts of American politics for decades now, and there is no more reliable guide to infrastructural facts." -- Todd Gitlin

"The best book on how race colors national politics in the U.S., written by one of the Washington Post's top political reporters."

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