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.