The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928
"Well written, well researched, and extensively footnoted....Recommended for college and university libraries."--Choice"McGerr deftly traces the transformation from popular to elitist politics....[His] argument deserves a wide audience."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"McGerr arrays prodigious research in manuscript collections and newspapers....[He] approach[es] political history in fresh and energetic fashion and deserve[s] credit for impressive research that enables [him] to answer old questions in new and intriguing ways."--American Historical Review"McGerr provides a rewarding, even nostalgic, glimpse into the way politics used to be in this country, and a reader can spin out some intriguing implications from his study."--The New Leader"Carefully reasoned, persuasive....Revisionist history at its most enlightening."--Booklist