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Author Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), 1951-

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

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

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Description xiv, 352 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-344) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807863750
0807828629 (alk. paper)
0807855375 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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