When Bad Men Combine: The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics
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| 505 | 8 | |a COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE: FRAUD AT ITS FINEST -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- 1. Celerity, Certainty, and Security: The Post Office Conquers the West, 1789-1878 -- 2. Chapter First in the History of Plunder: Early Accusations and Investigations, 1872-1878 -- 3. The Cynicism of This: Stephen Dorsey and His Ring, 1878-1881 -- 4. Probe This Ulcer to the Bottom: President Garfield Takes Action, Spring 1881 -- 5. Setting a Thief to Catch a Thief: A Special Prosecutor Is Appointed, Spring 1881 -- 6. Business Connected with Dorsey's Troubles: The Investigation Takes Shape, Spring-Summer 1881 -- 7. The Newspapers Confirmed the Inspiration: The President Falls, Summer-Fall 1881 -- 8. MacVeagh's Waterloo: The Prosecution Falters, Fall 1881 -- 9. This Lamentable Fiasco: The Prosecutors' Civil War, Fall-Early Winter 1881 -- 10. From the Sewers of Calumny: The Press v. the Prosecutors, Winter 1881-1882 -- 11. Selling You Out to the Other Side: Prosecutors with Suspect Loyalties, Winter 1882 -- 12. The Charge Here Is Conspiracy: The First Star Route Trial Begins, Spring-Summer 1882 -- 13. Not So Hopeless: The Prosecution Makes Its Case, Summer 1882 -- 14. Was Not That a Fraud?: The Defense Stumbles, Summer 1882 -- 15. A National Humiliation: The Controversial Verdict, Late Summer 1882 -- 16. Inconsistent and Peculiar: Charges of Jury Tampering and a Purge, Fall-Winter 1882 -- 17. Suckled in Falsehood: The Star Route Retrial, Winter 1882-Spring 1883 -- 18. Yes, the Star Route Business Killed Garfield!: Reckoning with the Scandal, 1883-1884 -- 19. The Standard of Public Morals Has Been Elevated: After the Star Route Scandal, 1884-Present -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Illustrations | |
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