Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates

by Peter S. Wenz

Book Overview

Why Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.

On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Canada. But in fact, writes Peter Wenz in Beyond Red and Blue, Americans do not divide neatly into two ideological camps of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012952
• ISBN13: 9780262012959
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher