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Author: Walter Nugent
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The nowstaunchly red state of Texas was deep blue in 1950 and had virtually no functioning Republican Party. California, on the other hand, was reliably red. Today, both states have jumped to the opposite end of the political spectrum. Texas is one of the most conservative states, while California has become one of todays most liberal bastions. These are the most dramatic cases, but notable shifts in voting patterns have occurred throughout the western states in recent decadesshifts so varied and complex that they have, until now, eluded the attention focused on the drastic examples of the South and Northeast. Bringing clarity to the remarkably mixed yet poorly understood map of Americas red, blue, and purple western half, Color Coded presents the first comprehensive history of political change and stability in the region between 1950 and 2016. The West, in Walter Nugents analysis, includes nineteen states the thirteen that the U.S. Census Bureau calls the Western Regionroughly from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, as well as off-shore Alaska and Hawaiiplus the six Great Plains states from North Dakota south to Texas. Consulting official voting results of more than 5,300 state and national elections, as well as newspaper reports, oral histories, public documents, and other sources, Nugent reveals the ever-shifting patterns that have defined western politics in modern times. Geography, culture, history, political trajectories, and the charisma of key political actors have all played their part in these changesand will, Nugent asserts, continue to do so for the foreseeable future. A powerful, exhaustively researched study of modern political organization, party development, and shifting voter blocs in the West, Color Coded deftly charts, as well, the profound red-blue tensions that have defined modern America. Returns for the 5,300-plus elections on which the book is based, covering the nineteen western states between 1950 and 2016, are compiled in the books appendix. **Review In taking the reader through a careful state-by-state examination of political change over the past seventy years, Walter Nugent uncovers the necessary nuance and detail to show that there is no one West in American politics. Color Coded is a touchstone work for understanding the future political development of the United States west of the Mississippi.Ronald Keith Gaddie coauthor of The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act Walter Nugent gives a near forensic account of how modern western state politics have shifted across the political spectrum, both from red to blue and blue to red. Color Coded is a fascinating and often surprising analysis by a master historian.Richard White author of The Republic for Which It Stands The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 18651896 With its impressive sweep of scholarship, Walter Nugents Color Coded will be an essential source for both political scientists and political strategists.Fred Harris, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, 19641973, and author of Deadlock or Decision The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics About the Author Walter Nugent is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the former President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and former president of the Western History Association. As a widely recognized expert in the fields of western history and progressive age America, Nugent has authored many books. His most recent publications include Habits of Empire A History of American Expansionism (Vintage, 2009), Progressivism A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2009), and Into the West The Story of Its People (Vintage, 2001)
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Author: Louis Uchitelle
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From the longtime New York Times economics correspondent, a closely reported argument for the continuing importance of industry for American prosperity In the 1950s manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of U.S. income. Over the past fifty-five years that share has gradually declined to less than 12 percent at the same time that real estate, finance, and Wall Street trading have grown. While manufacturings share of the U.S. economy shrinks, it expands in countries such as China and Germany that have a strong industrial policy. Meanwhile Americans are only vaguely aware of the many consequencesincluding a decline in their self-image as inventive, practical, and effective peopleof the loss of that industrial base. And yet, with the improbable rise of Donald Trump, the consequences of the hollowing out of Americas once-vibrant industrial working class can no longer be ignored. Reporting from places where things were and sometimes still are Made in the USAAlbany, New York, Boston, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.longtime New York Times economics correspondent Louis Uchitelle argues that the government has a crucial role to play in making domestic manufacturing possible. Combining brilliant reportage with an incisive economic and political argument, Making It tells the overlooked story of manufacturings still-vital role in the United States and how it might expand. **ReviewPraise for Making It Readers interested in U.S. labor and economics history, globalization, and political economy will find Uchitelles latest to be deeply engrossing, convincing, and thoughtfully written. Booklist A robust and fatalistic argument for a return to American greatness. Kirkus Reviews [A]n elegant swan song for a lost era of U.S. manufacturing greatness... Uchitelle convincingly debunks explanations that blame supposedly unskilled workers for their own plight. Publishers Weekly Is there any way to bring back the manufacturing jobs that once supported the American working class? Louis Uchitelle, who so ably chronicled the massive layoffs of the 80s and 90s for the New York Times, thinks yesif we are willing to accept the fact that manufacturing has always been publicly subsidized and owes the public something in return. If we should ever again have a rational and enlightened federal government, they couldnt do better than to start by reading this book. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of *Nickel and Dimed* Both a lamentation and a blueprint for manufacturing in America, this compelling and humane book demonstrates the intimate connection between good work and national well-being. Making It is economics with a heart. Mike Rose, author of *The Mind at Work Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker* Heres a surprise it is Big Government that makes manufacturing possibleyes, even here. And we better stop thinking otherwise if we want to compete in the world economy. Louis Uchitelle, the great New York Times journalistand, for me, one of our best writers on the economymakes the case for making it. In this wonderfully readable book, he explains why the future of manual labor rests in our own hands. Tom Geoghegan, author of *Only One Thing Can Save Us Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement* Manufacturing goods in the United States rather than overseas matters in ways few understand as deeply as Louis Uchitelle, who for three decades has chronicled how government policy damaged this value adding sector of the economy. David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of *Divided The Perils of Our Growing Inequality* Louis Uchitelle brings the vital importance of American manufacturing to life. . . He effectively describes the important role manufacturing can and must play in our economy and delivers a wake-up call regarding the aggressive government action necessary to ensure that manufacturing remains the foundation of our nations power. Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-MI) Praise for The Disposable American A tour de force of reporting, analysis, andbest of allsuggested solutions. Barbara Ehrenreich A strong case that the whole middle class is at risk. The New York Times An overdue wake-up call that could start making the wisdom of layoffs that much less conventional. San Francisco Chronicle Incisive. . . . An airtight case against the common wisdom that favors job cuts. Businessweek Uchitelle writes about the moral failings of our modern corporate structure with deep and persuasive insight. That alone makes the book a must-read. Detroit Free Press About the Author Louis Uchitelle covered economics and labor issues for the New York Times for twenty-five years. Before that, as a foreign correspondent for Associated Press, he covered the American occupation of the Dominican Republic in the 1960s and the rise of a guerrilla movement in Argentina. He is the author of The Disposable American and lives in Scarsdale, New York.
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