Title: Party games : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics /
Authors: Summers, Mark W. 1951-
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Political culture United States History; Political parties United States History; Power (Social sciences) United States History; Political corruption United States History; United States Politics and government
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.