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February 2004
On Sale: February 3, 2004
240 pages ISBN: 0743254783 EAN: 9780743254786 Hardcover
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ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER
OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira
convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic,
economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new
progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling
conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new
conservative era. His book, The Emerging Republican
Majority, became an indispensable guide for all those
attempting to understand political change through the 1970s
and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century,
with the country in Republican hands, The Emerging
Democratic Majority is the indispensable guide to this era. In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword
covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the
most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are
cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what
the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at
Republican demands to privatize social security, ban
abortion, and cut back environmental regulations. As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives,
the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an
essential volume for all those discontented with their
narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order.
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