Spoiled Rotten

How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic

By: Jay Cost

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Hardcover | 15 May 2012

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A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party. In Spoiled Rotten, Cost reveals that the national political organization, first formed by Andrew Jackson in 1824, that has always prided itself as the party of the poor, the working class, the little guy is anything but that—rather, it’s a corrupt tool of special interest groups that feed off of the federal government. A remarkable book that belongs on every politically aware American’s bookshelf next to Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism and The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes, Spoiled Rotten exposes the Democratic Party as a modern-day national Tammany Hall and indisputably demonstrates why it can no longer be trusted with the power of government.

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Introduction	p. 1
All the Toiling Masses: William Jennings Bryan and the Jacksonian Revival	p. 11
Bryanism with a Princeton Accent: Woodrow Wilson and the Founding of the Modem Democratic Party	p. 26
A Mediator of Interests: FDR and the Establishment of the New Deal Order	p. 44
He Just Dropped into the Slot: Harry Truman and the Consolidation of the New Deal Order	p. 75
Let Us Continue: JFK, LBJ, and the Apogee of American Liberalism	p. 96
They Can Count: Civil Rights and the Development of Black Politics	p. 117
There's No Party That Can Match Us: George Meany and the Evolution of Organized Labor	p. 138
The Share-Out Runs Its Course: The Election of 1968 and the Splintering of the Democratic Party	p. 155
Too Much Hair and Not Enough Cigars: The New Politics and Party Reform	p. 178
Hard Choices and Scarce Resources: Jimmy Carter and the Rebellion of the Clients	p. 202
A Temporary Triangle: Bill Clinton and the Circumvention of the Clients	p. 223
You're on the Menu: Barack Obama and the Triumph of the Clients	p. 246
Conclusion	p. 275
Acknowledgments	p. 285
Notes	p. 287
Index	p. 343
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