An edition of Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
(2021)
Age of Acrimony
How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
by Jon Grinspan
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The forces influencing American democracy and politics from 1865 to 1920, organized around the professional biographies of William “Pig Iron” Kelley, Congressional rep from Philadelphia, and his daughter, the reformer Florence Kelly.
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United States, suffrage, democracy, politics, the party system, populism, elitism, reform, political campaigning, elections, machine politicsPeople
James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, Ignatius Donnelly, Frederick Douglass, Rutherford B. Hayes, Florence Kelley, William Kelley, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., William Allen WhitePlaces
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Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
2021, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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1635574625 9781635574623
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First Sentence
"Florie’s Papa had sent a letter."
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Part One. Pure Democracy, 1865–1877
One. “The One Question of the Age is Settled”
Two. “The Great American Game”
Three. “The Game Going on at Washington”
Four. “I Boast of Philadelphia at All Times”
Five. “Swallow It Down”
Six. “If Anybody Says Election to Me, I Want to Fight”
Part Two. The Law of Everything Is Competetition, 1877–1890
Seven. “Bother Politics!”
Eight. “When a Man Works in Politics, He Should Get Something Out of It”
Nine. “Where Do All These Cranks Come From?”
Ten. “Now We Shall Have the Worst Again”
Eleven. “A Yount Lady, Now in Europe, Who Bears My Name”
Twelve. “Reformers Who Eat Roast Beef”
Thirteen. “A Man Who Has Been Through as Much as I Have”
Part Three. New Weapons of Democracy, 1890–1915
Fourteen. “Some Change Must Occur Very Soon Now”
Fifteen. “The Secret Clause”
Sixteeen. “Investigate, Agitate, Legislate”
Seventeen. “The Right Not to Vote”
Eighteen. “It Runs in Our Blood to Be Leaders”
Acknowledgements
Image Plate Credits
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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