Party games [electronic resource] : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics / Mark Wahlgren Summers.
By: Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren).
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004Description: xiv, 352 p. : ill.Subject(s): Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Political parties -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Political corruption -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900Genre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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