AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE by Robert W. Cherny ( 9780882959337 )

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AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE
1868 - 1900

By:

Robert W. Cherny

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0882959336

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HARLAN DAVIDSON INC

Pub. date:

30 January, 1997

Series:

The American History Series

Pages:

192

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With the latest scholarship in mind, this book provides a deft and highly readable analysis that is certain to help readers better understand the characteristics and important products of Gilded-Age politics.

Synopsis:

Often Gilded-Age politics has been described as devoid of content or accomplishment, a mere spectacle to divert voters from thinking about the real issues of the day. But by focusing too closely on dramatic scandals and on the foibles of prominent politicians, many historians have tended to obscure other aspects of late nineteenth-century politics that proved to be of great and long-term significance. With the latest scholarship in mind, Professor Cherny provides a deft and highly readable analysis that is certain to help readers better understand the characteristics and important products of Gilded-Age politics. Topics covered include: voting behavior; the relation between the popular will and the formation of public policy; the cause and effect of the deadlock in national politics that lasted from the mid-1870s to the 1890s; the sources of political innovation at state and local levels; and the notable changes wrought during the 1890s that ushered in important new forms of American politics.

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