Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your March reading list.

He lays out the case for why such a system still represents “the best way to organize and direct the deep tensions that always exist within the electorate.” Tracing the Democratic and the Republican Parties from their births through the congressional reforms of the nineteen-seventies (which ushered in the era of intense partisanship we know today),

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