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Christopher Eisgruber cited Julian Zelizer's work to provide a nuanced perspective on political division, noting the author is a colleague. Eisgruber emphasized that the book argues partisanship is an ordinary and functional aspect of American political life, offering a defense of its historical role. This defense was crucial in differentiating healthy division from the current, damaging state of "hyper-partisanship."
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The book discussed how partisanship is an ordinary and functional part of American politics, although the current period is marked by 'hyper-partisanship' which is damaging.
My friend and colleague Julian Zelizer in the Princeton History Department has a book out called In Defense of Partisanship where he talks about how partisanship and the division into competing parties is, you know, an ordinary part of American life and a functional part of our politics.