To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party

From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party—founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country's elites.

"The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses.” —Los Angeles Times

When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters wh...