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Article: Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2008
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Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy. By Jeff Taylor. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. 392. $44.95.)
Why have the electoral fortunes of the Democratic Party declined? Because, contends this author, the party has forsaken its roots, thus alienating traditional supporters. Focusing on William Jennings Bryan and Hubert Horatio Humphrey, this richly detailed, informative book offers a provocative and striking interpretation of the twentieth-century plight of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Party.
Jeff Taylor defines Jefferson as a "classical liberal" who built on the thought of ...