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The two-party system nobody asked for / Robert Lockwood Mills.

Author/creator Mills, Robert Lockwood author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York : Algora Publishing, [2019]
Descriptionx, 236 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents George Washington was prescient -- A two-party system that nobody asked for -- A new two-party system (that nobody asked for) -- The fabulous fifties and dysfunctional sixties -- Of party bosses and primary elections -- The Donald and the Andrew -- Media (plural noun) vs. media (singular noun) -- Rules of the (political) game -- Attacking the two-party trust -- Failed third parties in history -- All politics is local, and other myths -- A court ruling worse than Citizens United? -- Voter fraud, electoral fraud, and fraudulent people -- How television, blogs, and social media affect politics -- Bucking the two-party system -- The endorsement game -- Of Senate rules and Supreme Court nominations -- Wall Street and the two-party system -- The two-party system and the First Amendment -- God, the media, and the two-party system -- Of dinos and rinos -- The two-party system and big-time sports -- The two-party system and the Supreme Court -- The two-party system and the 25th Amendment -- Partisanship and deep pockets -- The war on Christmas and other political wars -- The two-party system and mother nature -- The two-party system and gender wars -- Partisanship vs. non-partisanship -- The two-party system makes strange bedfellows -- Nobody is allowed to be an independent -- 'Judge not, lest you be judged non-partisan' -- The two-party system is bad for one's health -- The man who upset the two-party duopoly -- Party-switchers don't hurt the duopoly -- The mid-terms settle nothing -- Those inscrutable Florida voters -- Gerrymandering and the courts -- The new political landscape -- Possible third-party candidacies in 2020 -- The elephant(s) in the room -- Another potential elephant -- A radical idea from a radical centrist -- Until it happens -- Epilogue.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Mills, Robert Lockwood. Two-Party System Nobody Asked For. New York : Algora Publishing, 2019 1628943556
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2018061467
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