Volume 40, Number 16 · October 7, 1993
Clinton, So Far
By Thomas Byrne Edsall
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
The Scar of Race
by Paul Sniderman, by Thomas Piazza
Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), 212 pp., $18.95
Mad as Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box, 1992
by Jack W. Germond, by Jules Witcover
Warner, 534 pp., $24.95
The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism
by David Greenstone
Princeton University Press, 352 pp., $24.95
Bill Clinton's successful campaign seemed to restore the Democratic Party's competitive strength in presidential elections. For the first time since 1964, Clinton showed that it was possible for a member of his party to make the case for stronger government intervention in the economy and particularly in health care—central factors in increasing Democratic votes in states from New Hampshire to California. Clinton's campaign also prevented conservatives from successfully exploiting the racial and social issues that had divided the Democratic Party for a generation. The Republican coalition was in shambles, torn apart by differing views on abortion and taxes, by Bush's failure to deal with the recession, and by its own populist insurgency from the right.
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