{"id":2044,"date":"2007-01-30T22:45:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T05:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/01\/30\/a-list-of-political-books-i-wish-someone-would-write\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T22:45:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T05:45:32","slug":"a-list-of-political-books-i-wish-someone-would-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/01\/30\/a-list-of-political-books-i-wish-someone-would-write\/","title":{"rendered":"A list of political books I wish someone would write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#1: The Complete History of the Natural Law Party.\u00c2\u00a0 Which would either end up overlapping some with<\/p>\n<p>#2: The 2000 Reform Party Nomination Battle.\u00c2\u00a0 A case study in how a third party dies due to its usefulness as a vessel for other-interested.<\/p>\n<p>#3:\u00c2\u00a0 A look at ALL of the Presidential Races of Eugene McCarthy, emphasis of the 1992 race equal to the 1968 race.\u00c2\u00a0 Skew the Historical perspective a bit, why dontcha?<\/p>\n<p>#4:\u00c2\u00a0 The Search for the last Whig Party Candidate to appear on any ballot, the last Federalist Party Candidate to appear on any ballot, and the last actually elected Whig and Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>#5:\u00c2\u00a0 The 1986 Illinois Democratic Primary Race.\u00c2\u00a0 You know the ones.\u00c2\u00a0 Heck, the Executive Intelligence Review or Benjamin Franklin Books could publish it.\u00c2\u00a0 No, then he&#8217;d have to acknowledge he peaked in 1986 and didn&#8217;t get anywhere electorally with his peak.<\/p>\n<p>#6:\u00c2\u00a0 The Disjointed history of the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, this would have to end up being an essay, but it&#8217;s amusing and darkly funny anyways.<\/p>\n<p>#7: The 1924 Democratic National Convention, which was what inspired the oft quoted Will Rogers saying &#8220;I&#8217;m not a member of an organized political party.\u00c2\u00a0 I am a Democrat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>#8:\u00c2\u00a0 The History of the Dies Committee.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually I&#8217;ve seen this book, so never mind.\u00c2\u00a0 Published in the early 1940s, it posited the late twentieth century Red Scare as a precursor to the Dies Committee.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is odd, because today, the Dies Committee would be a footnote, a brief mention as the actual physical entity of the Committee on UnAmerican Activities, and a precursor to McCarthy in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>So, those are several books I want to read.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a market for any of them, but why don&#8217;t you write them anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1: The Complete History of the Natural Law Party.\u00c2\u00a0 Which would either end up overlapping some with #2: The 2000 Reform Party Nomination Battle.\u00c2\u00a0 A case study in how a third party dies due to its usefulness as a vessel for other-interested. #3:\u00c2\u00a0 A look at ALL of the Presidential Races of Eugene McCarthy, emphasis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}