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How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

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An edition of Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 (2021)

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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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Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Language
English
Pages
368

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Subjects
United States, suffrage, democracy, politics, the party system, populism, elitism, reform, political campaigning, elections, machine politics
People
James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, Ignatius Donnelly, Frederick Douglass, Rutherford B. Hayes, Florence Kelley, William Kelley, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., William Allen White
Places
Philadelphia, Washington, D. C., New York
Times
1850s-1920s, the Gilded Age, the Populist Uprising, the Progressive Age

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First Sentence

"Florie’s Papa had sent a letter."

Table of Contents

Contents Page vii
Preface Page ix
Part One. Pure Democracy, 1865–1877
One. “The One Question of the Age is Settled” Page 3
Two. “The Great American Game” Page 15
Three. “The Game Going on at Washington” Page 33
Four. “I Boast of Philadelphia at All Times” Page 47
Five. “Swallow It Down” Page 65
Six. “If Anybody Says Election to Me, I Want to Fight” Page 85
Part Two. The Law of Everything Is Competetition, 1877–1890
Seven. “Bother Politics!” Page 105
Eight. “When a Man Works in Politics, He Should Get Something Out of It” Page 116
Nine. “Where Do All These Cranks Come From?” Page 131
Ten. “Now We Shall Have the Worst Again” Page 142
Eleven. “A Yount Lady, Now in Europe, Who Bears My Name” Page 156
Twelve. “Reformers Who Eat Roast Beef” Page 172
Thirteen. “A Man Who Has Been Through as Much as I Have” Page 186
Part Three. New Weapons of Democracy, 1890–1915
Fourteen. “Some Change Must Occur Very Soon Now” Page 199
Fifteen. “The Secret Clause” Page 208
Sixteeen. “Investigate, Agitate, Legislate” Page 223
Seventeen. “The Right Not to Vote” Page 242
Eighteen. “It Runs in Our Blood to Be Leaders” Page 265
Acknowledgements Page 273
Image Plate Credits Page 277
Bibliography Page 279
Notes Page 309
Index Page 357

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Copyright Date
2021

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Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/40922 [B]-dc23
Library of Congress
E661.G756 2021

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Format
hardcover
Pagination
xiv, 368p
Number of pages
368
Weight
746 grams

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OL29889694M
ISBN 13
9781635574623

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