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Democracyby James MacGregor Burns  \n◎ 1963 by James MacGregor Burns  \nAll rights reserved,includingthe right to reproduce this book,orany portions thercof,in any form,exceptfor the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number 63-8455  \nPrnted in the United States of America  \n19694T  \nPRENTICE-HALLINTERNATTONAI,INc.(London,Tokyo,Sydney,Paris)  \nPRENTICE-HALL or CANADA,LTD  \nPnENTICE-HALL DE MEXIco,SA.  \nBooks BY JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS  \nThe Deadlock of Democracy:Four-PartyPolitics in America  \nJolin Kernedy:A Political Profile  \nRoosevelt:The Lion and the Fox  \nGover11ment By the People(with Jack W.Peltason)  \nCongress on Trial  \nOkinava:The Last Battle(co-author)  \nGuam:Operations of tle 77th Division  \nFor Margaret and EuniceEach in her own way....  \nPrologue:The Politics of the Cave  \n工  \nPART I  \nTHE MADISONIAN MODEL  \n1 Madison and the Strategy of Checks8  \nTHE ROAD TO PHILADELPHIA 10  \n2 Jeffersonz and the Strategy of Parties  \n24  \nTHE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS 26JEFFERSON BUILDS A PARTY 32THE THEORY OF MAJORITY RULE 38THE CHECKING AND BALANCINGOF JAMES MADISON  \n忆  \n3 Tle Splintering of the Parties  \n47  \nTHE FLOWERING OF THE PARTIES 51WHIGS·THE EROSION OF THE CENTER 58DEMOCRATS:THE STRATEGY OF DISRUPTION 61WHY DID THE PARTTES FAIL?65  \n4 The Pulverizatioiz of Party  \nTHE SEESAW OF THE PARTIEs 75THE PARTIES UNDER ATTACK 80  \nPART HTHE JEFFERSONAN IMPULSE  \n# 5 Rooscvelt and Taft·Wliicli Reptblican Party?\n\nTIIT cOLONCL AND THL Doss 95  \nA“RCGLILAR WITII A CONSCIEncE”99  \nTAFT AND TIE CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICAN 106CONSCIENCE.wITIIOUIT BLGULABS 112  \n6 oodrow Walson and the New Democracy  \nTIIE SC₁1OLAn AND THC BOSs 123MASTER or IIS PARTY?  130  \nWILSON v.LODGE NO ADVICL,No CONSENT 136VILSON AS A JErrrnSONIAN LEADER 142  \nTIIE EDUCATION OF FRANKLIN RoOSEVELT 151RoOSEVELT AND TIE GRAND COALITION 156TIC CRUMDLING OF THE COALITION 161roosEVELT AS A POLITICAL STRATECIST 167THL Wo RoosEVELTS:AN EPITAPII 173  \n# 8 Eisenhower and Taft:Which Republzcan Party?\n\nTHE EDUCATION OF ROBERT TAFT 179THIE nOUT or TIIE REGULARS 182THIE GENERAL AND THE SENATOn 188SUIMMARY:THC FOUn-PARTY SYSTEMIN IIISTORY  \nPART IITHE MADISONIAN SYSTEM TODAY  \n# 9 Tlie Balance Wheels of Politics\n\nRrGULARS AND IRREGULARS 206TIE WEB or LEADERSIIIP 212THE ANATOMY oF BALANCE 218  \n119  \nCONTENTS  \n9 The Balance Wheels of Politics(Cont.)  \nTHE oUTSIDERS 222THE OUTSIDER INSIDE 229  \n10 The Structure of Coalition Polutics  \nSTATE PARTTES:THE SHRIVELED ROOTs 236THE CONGRESSIONAL PARTY SYSTEM 241THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY SYSTEM 249FOUR-PARTY POLTTICs 257  \n11 Tle Wlirlpools of Chage  \n265  \nTHE CITIES AND THE SUBUIRBS 267  \nsoUTHERN POLITICS RIM AND HEABTLAND 271IS PARTY REALIGNMENT INEVTTABLE?275  \n12 Which Republicnn Party?  \n280  \nTHE CONGRESSIONAL PARTY:REARGUARDSTRATEGY 283  \nTHE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY:STRATEGY OF THECENTER 288COALITION AND COMBAT 295  \n13 The Dilc111a of the Democrats  \n301  \nKENNEDY AND THE PRESIDENTIAL DEMOCRATICPARTY 306  \nCONGRESSIONAL DENOCRATIC STRATEGY 311WHAT STRATEGY FOR THE NEW FRONTIER?317  \n14 Strategy for America1s  \n323  \nTHE POWER IN THE PEOPLE 332LEADERSHIP:THE ART OF THE IMIPOSSIBLE?336  \nAcknowledgmennts341  \nSources  \n343  \nT正工E  \n# DEADIOCKOF DEMOCRACY\n\nPrologue  \n# T工工E\n\nPOLITICSof the CAVH  \nehind the fascination with political personalitiesand election gladiators here is in this country,I think,a vast boredom with politics.Because ithas failed to engage itself with the problems that dog us during ourworking days and haunt our dreams at night,politics has not en-gaged the best of us,or at least the best in us.If people seem com-placent or inert,the cause may lie less in them than in a politicalsystem that evades and confuses the real issues rather than sharpen-ing and resolving them.Anyone active in everyday politics knowsof concerned,civic-m","cbCaigTbxngHsjmM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigTbxngHsjmM","pdf",16978208,403,"English","# Prologue\n# Part I - The Madisonian Model\n## Madison and the Strategy of Checks\n## The Road to Philadelphia\n## Jefferson and the Strategy of Parties\n## The First Congressional Republicans\n## The Splintering of the Parties\n## The Pulverization of Party\n## The Seesaw of the Parties\n# Part II - The Jeffersonian Impulse\n## Roosevelt and Taft: Which Republican Party?\n## The Colonel and the Boss\n## Woodrow Wilson and the New Democracy\n## Eisenhower and Taft: Which Republican Party?\n# Part III - The Madisonian System Today\n## The Balance Wheels of Politics\n## Regulars and Irregulars\n## The Structure of Coalition Politics\n## The Whirlpool of Change\n## Which Republican Party?\n## The Dilemma of the Democrats\n## Strategy for America’s","[{\"question\":\"What central problem does the book focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The book centers on the political deadlock in democracy, 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