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Book Review

Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775–2000. Ed. by Byron E. Shafer and Anthony J. Badger. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1138-X. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7006-1139-8.)
In a series of essays covering the transformation of politics and the growth of the national state over two hundred–plus years, Contesting Democracy is a sober study of a circus, and a good thing, too. People with ringside seats smell the sawdust and can tell the performing elephants from the trained jackasses, but, for a full view of the big picture, it helps to get beyond the big tent. Byron E. Shafer and An-thony J. Badger's collection gives a necessary perspective on what, for many years, was America's greatest participatory sport. . . .
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