Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Next Realignment Is Coming 9
Chapter 2 Americas First and Second Party Systems: The Early Republic's Love-Hate Affair with Two-Party Politics 25
Chapter 3 America's Second and Third Party Systems: The Rise of Jackson and Collapse of the Whigs 49
Chapter 4 America's Third and Fourth Party Systems: The Incredible Story of William Jennings Bryan 77
Chapter 5 The Fifth Party System: How the New Deal Forged the Parties We Know 103
Chapter 6 The Liberal and Conservative Myth 133
Chapter 7 The American Ideal of Liberty 151
Chapter 8 The Progressive Plan 171
Chapter 9 The Virtue of a Republic 183
Chapter 10 The Fury of Populism 201
Chapter 11 The Choice: Collapse or Renewal 217
Chapter 12 The Last Hurrah of the Fifth Party System 229
Chapter 13 The Pendulum of Great Awakenings 259
Chapter 14 The Fourth Great Awakening and the 1960s 281
Chapter 15 The End of the Industrial Era and the American Century 313
Chapter 16 America Unraveling: Obama and Trump-The Last Presidents of the Fifth Party System 331
Chapter 17 What Happens Next 355
Chapter 18 The Party of the American Dream 383
Acknowledgments 399
Notes 401
Index 453