Party games: getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics
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1. Verfasser: Summers, Mark W., (Mark Wahlgren) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2004
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and index
A typical year -- What else could he have put into h--l? -- Politics is only war without the bayonets -- The demon lovers -- The press of public business -- The best majority money can buy -- An eye on the Maine chance -- Anything, Lord, but Milwaukee! : malapportionment and gerrymandering -- Purse'n'all influence -- The (round) house of legislation -- Class warfare, mainstream-party style -- The treason of the ineffectuals -- A little knight music -- The fix is in -- Dishing the pops
Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the story and admires much of the political carnival, but adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, election-rigging, news suppression, and violence
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 352 pages)
ISBN:0807863750
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