Download or read book Political Parties in the American Mold written by Leon D. Epstein and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most comprehensive textbook I have read on American political parties. Written before the current partisan impasse, the book does much to clarify the extremely fluid and often fragile structure of our two major parties--parties that, in comparison with their European counterparts, have relatively weak ties to social classes and religious groups."--New York Review of Books