Summers, Mark W. 1951-

Party games getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics / [electronic resource] : Mark Wahlgren Summers. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004. - xiv, 352 p. : ill.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Political culture--History--United States--19th century.
Political parties--History--United States--19th century.
Power (Social sciences)--History--United States--19th century.
Political corruption--History--United States--19th century.


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


Electronic books.

E661 / .S965 2004