Party games : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics / Mark Wahlgren Summers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--United States--History--19th century.

Political culture.

Political parties--United States--History--19th century.

Political parties.

Power (Social sciences)--United States--History--19th century.

Power (Social sciences).

Political corruption--United States--History--19th century.

Political corruption.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1900.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-344) and index.

ISBN:

9798890877741

9780807863756

0807863750

OCLC:

70731229