Constitutional Convention, 25, 47, 59n19, 153n17, 162n70, 345–346

consultant, 5, 104, 211–212, 233, 235, 239, 245, 250, 283, 287, 300, 309, 314, 318, 336n16, 348

Coolidge, Calvin, 84–85, 87, 180, 216, 252n7

corrupt, 7, 25, 59n19, 72, 122, 132, 150, 215, 220, 252n7, 374, 302–303, 412

“dark horse”, 2–4, 6, 13, 30n4, 71, 147

Daschle, Tom, 281–282, 314

Democratic Convention, 67, 182, 231, 235, 282

Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), 206n38, 233, 241, 331, 343, 417

Democratic National Convention, 68, 146, 181, 185, 188, 199, 217–218, 230, 237, 240, 278, 288, 314, 330

Democratic Party, 1–2, 24, 68, 81, 118, 144, 146, 168, 180, 185, 188, 213, 216, 233, 238, 241, 243, 263, 278, 282–283, 286, 291, 314, 318, 329, 341, 344, 412–413

Democratic Republicans, 66

Dewey, Thomas, 28, 84–85, 166, 191–192, 193, 196, 250, 259, 269–280, 291–292, 296n26, 296nn29–30, 296nn32–36, 296n39, 296nn41–43, 297n44–46, 314, 344, 415

and Glen Bedenapp, 276

and John Bricker, 270, 271, 275–276, 279

and Herbert Brownell, 278

and Dwight Eisenhower, 192, 196, 275, 344

and Irving Ives, 272, 274, 275

and Henry Cabot Lodge, 192

and James Mead, 274–275

and Richard Nixon, 191, 193, 250

and William O'Dwyer, 273–274

and Cabell Phillips, 275

and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 274

and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 269–273, 278–279, 296n26

and Harold Stassen, 275, 277

and Robert Taft, 270, 275, 277–278, 292

and Strom Thurmond, 278

and Harry S. Truman, 271, 274, 276, 278–279, 292, 297n46, 314

and Arthur Vandenburg, 275

and Henry Wallace, 271, 278

and Earl Warren, 277

and Wendell Willkie, 270–271

Dixicrats, 67

Dodd, Christopher, 300

Dred Scott case, 145–146

Dukakis, Michael, 81, 88, 219, 232–233, 240, 281, 394–401, 417

Durbin, Dick, 314

Early Party Era (1796–1860), 28, 64, 66, 102, 115, 150, 165, 263, 302, 349, 412–413

economy, 37, 75, 89–90, 91–92, 95, 103–104, 182, 228, 239–240, 258, 270, 287, 308, 331