02926nam 2200625Ia 450 991077741000332120230207224651.0979-88-908777-4-10-8078-6375-0(CKB)1000000000452667(EBL)413435(OCoLC)70731229(SSID)ssj0000218388(PQKBManifestationID)11209932(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218388(PQKBWorkID)10220230(PQKB)10504157(Au-PeEL)EBL413435(CaPaEBR)ebr10075643(MiAaPQ)EBC413435(EXLCZ)99100000000045266720030929d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrParty games[electronic resource] getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics /Mark Wahlgren SummersChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (368 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5537-5 0-8078-2862-9 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.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.Political cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical partiesUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPower (Social sciences)United StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical corruptionUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1865-1900Political cultureHistoryPolitical partiesHistoryPower (Social sciences)HistoryPolitical corruptionHistory324.097309034324/.0973/09034Summers Mark W(Mark Wahlgren),1951-1465222MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777410003321Party games3675119UNINA