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When Bad Men Combine : The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE: FRAUD AT ITS FINEST
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- 1. Celerity, Certainty, and Security: The Post Office Conquers the West, 1789-1878
- 2. Chapter First in the History of Plunder: Early Accusations and Investigations, 1872-1878
- 3. The Cynicism of This: Stephen Dorsey and His Ring, 1878-1881
- 4. Probe This Ulcer to the Bottom: President Garfield Takes Action, Spring 1881
- 5. Setting a Thief to Catch a Thief: A Special Prosecutor Is Appointed, Spring 1881
- 6. Business Connected with Dorsey's Troubles: The Investigation Takes Shape, Spring-Summer 1881
- 7. The Newspapers Confirmed the Inspiration: The President Falls, Summer-Fall 1881
- 8. MacVeagh's Waterloo: The Prosecution Falters, Fall 1881
- 9. This Lamentable Fiasco: The Prosecutors' Civil War, Fall-Early Winter 1881
- 10. From the Sewers of Calumny: The Press v. the Prosecutors, Winter 1881-1882
- 11. Selling You Out to the Other Side: Prosecutors with Suspect Loyalties, Winter 1882
- 12. The Charge Here Is Conspiracy: The First Star Route Trial Begins, Spring-Summer 1882
- 13. Not So Hopeless: The Prosecution Makes Its Case, Summer 1882
- 14. Was Not That a Fraud?: The Defense Stumbles, Summer 1882
- 15. A National Humiliation: The Controversial Verdict, Late Summer 1882
- 16. Inconsistent and Peculiar: Charges of Jury Tampering and a Purge, Fall-Winter 1882
- 17. Suckled in Falsehood: The Star Route Retrial, Winter 1882-Spring 1883
- 18. Yes, the Star Route Business Killed Garfield!: Reckoning with the Scandal, 1883-1884
- 19. The Standard of Public Morals Has Been Elevated: After the Star Route Scandal, 1884-Present
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Illustrations