All politics is local: The persistence of localism in Twentieth-Century America

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 301-326

  Sugrue, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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