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Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A most anticipated book of 2022 at Vulture and Kirkus Reviews
A leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect, and newly invigorated quest for moral capitalism, from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden.
The Democratic Party is the world's oldest mass political organization. But what has the party stood for through the centuries, and how has it managed to succeed in elections and govern?
In What It Took to Win, the eminent historian Michael Kazin tells the story of the party's longtime commitment to promoting moral capitalism, a system that mixes entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers. Yet the party that championed the rights of the white working man also vigorously protected or furthered the causes of slavery, segregation, and Native American removal. With its evolution toward a more inclusive, e
