The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- CONTENTS -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Next Realignment Is Coming -- Chapter 2: America's First and Second Party Systems: The Early Republic's Love-Hate Affair with Two-Party Politics -- Chapter 3: America's Second and Third Party Systems: The Rise of Jackson and Collapse of the Whigs -- Chapter 4: America's Third and Fourth Party Systems: The Incredible Story of William Jennings Bryan -- Chapter 5: The Fifth Party System: How the New Deal Forged the Parties We Know -- Chapter 6: The Liberal and Conservative Myth -- Chapter 7: The American Ideal of Liberty -- Chapter 8: The Progressive Plan -- Chapter 9: The Virtue of a Republic -- Chapter 10: The Fury of Populism -- Chapter 11: The Choice: Collapse or Renewal -- Chapter 12: The Last Hurrah of the Fifth Party System -- Chapter 13: The Pendulum of Great Awakenings -- Chapter 14: The Fourth Great Awakening and the 1960s -- Chapter 15: The End of the Industrial Era and the American Century -- Chapter 16: America Unraveling: Obama and Trump-The Last Presidents of the Fifth Party System -- Chapter 17: What Happens Next -- Chapter 18: The Party of the American Dream -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.