A powerful, exhaustively researched study of modern political organization, party development, and shifting voter blocs in the West, Color Coded deftly charts, as well, the profound red-blue tensions that have defined modern America.
Walter Nugent is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the former President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and former president of the Western History Association. As a widely recognized expert in the fields of western history and progressive age America, Nugent has authored many books. His most recent publications include Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansionism (Vintage, 2009), Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2009), and Into the West: The Story of Its People (Vintage, 2001)
