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Emergency : the long anti-sixties -- The conquerors -- Centralizing the apparatus -- The faithful and the willful -- "The un-sixties" -- Men riding out of the west on white horses -- Pulpits of bullies -- Wilderness : fits and starts -- Parties and movements : a brief excursus on Democratic dilemmas -- Movements vs. party, 1964-80 -- Unlikely steward : Bill Clinton and liberalism in the nineties -- Emergence : the tent and the principles -- Party as movement, 2004 and after : the deaniacs, the purple states, and the netroots -- Frames, demons, and no-longer-silent majorities -- Is the tent big enough? -- Narratives and values -- Enemies, bogeymen, and the limits of American power -- The human face