Curbing Campaign Cash: Henry Ford, Truman Newberry, and the Politics of Progressive Reform
“Scandals over money in politics are nothing new.Curbing Campaign Cashprovides keen historical insight into the earliest efforts to set limits on campaign financing, and how that affected one of the most controversial campaigns for the United States Senate.” --Donald A. Ritchie, author ofElecting FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932“A fascinating account of one of the more sensational Senate elections of the twentieth century and a crucial episode in the history of campaign finance.” --Lewis L. Gould, author ofFour Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics