The politicos, 1865-1896
By: Matthew Josephson
Publisher: Commons
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780981457901
Subjects: History
Description: Written during the most desperate time in twentieth-century America, this biting chronicle of the Gilded Age confirmed in most Americans' minds why they had voted overwhelmingly for FDR and had embraced the New Deal's reforms. --from publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace, 1938.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-670) and index.
Table of contents: title: The triumph of the "Directory" : 1865-1868; title: The spoilsmen; title: The spoilsmen in power; title: Party purge : 1871-1872; title: Panic, scandal, and a close squeeze for the war party; title: Defense of the spoils system; title: The downfall of the spoilsmen : 1880-1881; title: Interlude : 1881-1884; title: Their majesties' opposition; title: The comedy of reform; title: "Frying the fat" : the planned alternation of the parties; title: Political profit-sharing; title: The new Jacobins; title: The return of the outs : the canalization of discontent; title: The second Cleveland term : the betrayal of popular mandates; title: 1894 : an angry people; title: The people capture a party; title: The rise of a national boss : Mark Hanna; title: The Bryan campaign.