Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics

Summers, Mark Wahlgren

ISBN 10: 0807855375 / ISBN 13: 9780807855379

Published by University of North Carolina Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807855375
• ISBN 13: 9780807855379
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Summers examines the American political system of the late nineteenth century with a behind-the-scenes look at the poll taxes, rigged elections, and other electoral shenanigans designed to bring large numbers of voters to the polls but still keep power in the hands of major partisan players.

About the Author

Mark Wahlgren Summers is Thomas D. Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. He is author of many books, including The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865–1878 and Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884.