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Party games : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics Mark Wahlgren Summers
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1900.
- United States.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807828629 (cloth)
- 9780807828625 (cloth)
- 0807855375 (paper)
- 9780807855379 (paper)
- OCLC:
- 53186529
- Online:
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