The next realignment: why America's parties are crumbling and what happens next

Introduction: the next realignment is coming

America's first and second party systems: the early republic's love-hate affair with two-party politics

America's second and third party systems: the rise of Jackson and collapse of the Whigs

America'sthird and fourth party systems: the incredible story of William Jennings Bryan

The fifth party system: how the New Deal forged the parties we know and maybe love

The liberal and conservative myth

The American ideal of liberty

The progressiveplan

The virtue of a republic

The fury of populism

The choice: renewal or collapse

The last hurrah of the fifth party system

The pendulum of Great Awakenings

The fourth Great Awakening and the 1960s

The end of the industrial era

Anunravelling

What happens next

Renewal, not decline

The party of the American Dream.