Independents Rising: Outsider Movements, Third Parties, and the Struggle for a Post-Partisan America

by Jacqueline Salit

A revealing look at how independent voters have been upending the political establishment for thirty years and how they'll decide the future of American politics. In a political system where two parties reign supreme, 40% of Americans consider themselves neither Democrats nor Republicans, but independents. Independents elected President Barack Obama in 2008 and then, in a seeming reversal, gave control of Congress to the Republicans in 2010. But who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230339123
• ISBN13: 9780230339125
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"