The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo : How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party

A majority of Americans tell pollsters they want more government intervention to reduce the gap between high- and lower-income citizens, and less than one-third consider high taxes to be a problem.

Yet conservative Republicanism currently controls the political discourse.

Why? Rick Perlstein probes this central paradox of today's political scene in his penetrating pamphlet.

Perlstein explains how the Democrats' obsessive short-term focus on winning "swing voters" instead of cultivating loyal party-liners has relegated Democrats to political stagnation.

Perlstein offers a vigorous critique and far-reaching vision that is a thirty-year plan for Democratic victory.