Party games [[electronic resource] ] : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics / / Mark Wahlgren Summers

• Autore: Summers Mark W (Mark Wahlgren), <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.097309034; 324/.0973/09034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1865-1900
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-344) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Party games
• ISBN: 0-8078-6375-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451905203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II