Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics

Contributor(s): Summers, Mark Wahlgren (Author)

ISBN: 9780807855379

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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Pub Date: April 19, 2004

Dewey: 324.09730903

LCCN: 2003021554

Lexile Code: 1700

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.84" H x 9.42" L x 6.18" W ( 1.11 lbs) 368 pages

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Description: Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics

Brief description:

Mark Wahlgren Summers is Thomas D. Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. He is author of many books, including The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878 and Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884.

Review Quotes:

"With acerbic wit and an incomparable grasp of period detail, Summers paints a picture of U.S democracy's late nineteenth-century style." -- American Historical Review

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