Title: Age of Acrimony
Subtitle: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
Description: The forces influencing American democracy and politics from 1865 to 1920, organized around the professional biographies of William “Pig Iron” Kelley, Congressional rep from Philadelphia, and his daughter, the reformer Florence Kelly.
Subjects: United States, suffrage, democracy, politics, the party system, populism, elitism, reform, political campaigning, elections, machine politics
Places: Philadelphia, Washington, D. C., New York
People: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, Ignatius Donnelly, Frederick Douglass, Rutherford B. Hayes, Florence Kelley, William Kelley, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., William Allen White
Time periods: 1850s-1920s, the Gilded Age, the Populist Uprising, the Progressive Age