Spoiled Rotten by Jay Cost

Spoiled Rotten

How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic

Jay Cost

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 15, 2012

A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party.

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Who it’s for
Readers interested in revisionist histories of the Democratic Party
Themes
Democratic Party history, Political patronage, Special interests and government
Genres
Political Parties, Corruption & Misconduct, Political Commentary

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A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party.

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In Spoiled Rotten, Cost reveals that the national political organization, first formed by Andrew Jackson in 1824, that has always prided itself as the party of the poor, the working class, the little guy is anything but that—rather, it’s a corrupt tool of special interest groups that feed off of the federal government. A remarkable book that belongs on every politically aware American’s bookshelf next to Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism and The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes, Spoiled Rotten exposes the Democratic Party as a modern-day national Tammany Hall and indisputably demonstrates why it can no longer be trusted with the power of government.

Who it’s for

  • Readers interested in revisionist histories of the Democratic Party
  • Politically aware readers interested in American party politics

Where it sits

Political Parties79%
Corruption & Misconduct37%
Political Commentary36%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

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  • World History
  • Federal Government Law
  • Political Philosophy
  • Politics & Government
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  • State & Provincial Government
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  • World Politics
Authors
Jay Cost
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
May 15, 2012
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Democratic Party history · Political patronage · Special interests and government
Reading lane
World History