Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, the Democratic Party has played a central role in defining American society, whether it was exercising power or contesting it. Kazin identifies and assesses the party's long-running commitment to creating "moral capitalism"-- a system that mixed entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers and consumers. While the party championed the rights of the white working man, they also vigorously...

This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of history?s most destructive wars and then were hounded by the government when they refused to back down. In the riveting War Against War, Michael Kazin brings us into the ranks of the largest, most diverse, and most sophisticated peace coalition up to that point in US history.