Hollow Parties - Sam Rosenfeld

A Major History From The Founding To Our Embittered Present That Explains The Void (politico) At The Center Of Americas Political Partiesfeatured On The Ezra Klein Show And The Weekly Show With Jon Stewartamericas Political Parties Are Hollow Shells Of What They Could Be, Locked In A Polarized Struggle For Power And Unrooted As Civic Organizations. The Hollow Parties Takes Readers From The Rise Of Mass Party Politics In The Jacksonian Era Through The Years Of Barack Obama And Donald Trump. Todays Parties, At Once Overbearing And Ineffectual, Have Emerged From The Interplay Of Multiple Party Traditions That Reach Back To The Founding.