Party games : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics / / Mark Wahlgren Summers.

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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiv, 352 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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.