The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam

In 1968 Richard Nixon ran on a Republican platform that accepted all the major Great Society reforms, just as Ike had accepted the core of the New Deal in the 1950s. This campaign would prove the high tide of liberal Republicanism and another low-water mark for party polarization in the twentieth century.