President-Making in the Gilded Age
Subtitle: The Nominating Conventions Of 1876-1900
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781476663128
Subjects: Political conventions; Presidents, united states, election; Nominations for office; United states, politics and government, 1865-1900
Description: "Nominating conventions were the highlight of presidential elections in the Gilded Age, an era when there were no primaries, no debates and nominees did little active campaigning. Unlike modern conventions, the outcomes were not so seemingly pre-determined. Historians consider the late 19th century an era of political corruption, when party bosses controlled the conventions and chose nominees"--