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Party games : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics /
Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the story and admires much of the political carnival, but adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, ele...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the story and admires much of the political carnival, but adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, election-rigging, news suppression, and violence. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 352 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807863750 9780807863756 0807828629 9780807828625 0807855375 9780807855379 |