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A republic no more : big government and the rise of American political corruption / Jay Cost.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cost, Jay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption--United States.
- Political corruption.
- Republicanism.
- United States.
- Republicanism--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 393 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, 2015.
- Contents:
- The great desideratum : Madison, Hamilton, and the First Bank of the United States
- The spirit of the nation forbids it : nationalism and corruption from Jefferson to Jackson
- The general scramble for plunder : patronage in Jacksonian America
- Permanent and terrible mischief : machine politics in the Gilded Age
- The king of frauds : business and politics in the Gilded Age
- To dissolve the unholy alliance : the progressive response to corruption
- A grand political racket : corruption in the new deal
- Clear it with sidney : modern liberalism and the interest group society
- A grab bag of subsidies : the politics of American agriculture
- The parochial imperative : the politics of the pork barrel
- A big, dumb price fixer : medicare and the politics of entitlements
- A robbery of the great majority : the politics of corporate taxation
- The pretorian band : Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the politics of regulatory capture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594037276
- 1594037272
- OCLC:
- 873007737
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