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

by Mark Wahlgren Summers

Book Overview

Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, election-rigging, blackguarding, news suppression, and violence.
Summers also points out that hardball politics and third-party...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855375
• ISBN13: 9780807855379
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"