Age of Acrimony
Subtitle: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781635574623
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: Florie’s Papa had sent a letter.
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: vii; title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: Part One
title: Pure Democracy, 1865–1877; label: One
title: “The One Question of the Age is Settled”
pagenum: 3; label: Two
title: “The Great American Game”
pagenum: 15; label: Three
title: “The Game Going on at Washington”
pagenum: 33; label: Four
title: “I Boast of Philadelphia at All Times”
pagenum: 47; label: Five
title: “Swallow It Down”
pagenum: 65; label: Six
title: “If Anybody Says Election to Me, I Want to Fight”
pagenum: 85; label: Part Two
title: The Law of Everything Is Competetition, 1877–1890; label: Seven
title: “Bother Politics!”
pagenum: 105; label: Eight
title: “When a Man Works in  Politics, He Should Get Something Out of It”
pagenum: 116; label: Nine
title: “Where Do All These Cranks Come From?”
pagenum: 131; label: Ten
title: “Now We Shall Have the Worst Again”
pagenum: 142; label: Eleven
title: “A Yount Lady, Now in Europe, Who Bears My Name”
pagenum: 156; label: Twelve
title: “Reformers Who Eat Roast Beef”
pagenum: 172; label: Thirteen
title: “A Man Who Has Been Through as Much as I Have”
pagenum: 186; label: Part Three
title: New Weapons of Democracy, 1890–1915; label: Fourteen
title: “Some Change Must Occur Very Soon Now”
pagenum: 199; label: Fifteen
title: “The Secret Clause”
pagenum: 208; label: Sixteeen
title: “Investigate, Agitate, Legislate”
pagenum: 223; label: Seventeen
title: “The Right Not to Vote”
pagenum: 242; label: Eighteen
title: “It Runs in Our Blood to Be Leaders”
pagenum: 265; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 273; title: Image Plate Credits
pagenum: 277; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 279; title: Notes
pagenum: 309; title: Index
pagenum: 357