Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003年8月15日 - 408 頁 The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest in American history, remembered today less for its political significance than for the mudslinging and slander that characterized the campaign. But a closer look at the infamous election reveals far more complexity than previous stereotypes allowed, argues Mark Summers. Behind all the mud and malarkey, he says, lay a world of issues and consequences. Summers suggests that both Democrats and Republicans sensed a political system breaking apart, or perhaps a new political order forming, as voters began to drift away from voting by party affiliation toward voting according to a candidate's stand on specific issues. Mudslinging, then, was done not for public entertainment but to tear away or confirm votes that seemed in doubt. Uncovering the issues that really powered the election and stripping away the myths that still surround it, Summers uses the election of 1884 to challenge many of our preconceptions about Gilded Age politics. |
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Chapter 1 No Business ToDay Other Than Politics | 13 |
Chapter 2 The Dispirit of 76 | 27 |
Chapter 3 The Bloody ShirtIn Hoc Signo Vinces | 41 |
Chapter 4 The Politics of Personality | 59 |
Chapter 5 O Temperance O Mores | 77 |
Chapter 6 The Protection Racket | 91 |
Chapter 7 The Democrats Rise from the Dead | 108 |
Chapter 12 Windypendents Day | 197 |
Chapter 13 Ireland Sold for Gold | 210 |
Chapter 14 Sideshows | 223 |
Chapter 15 Carrying the War into Africa | 240 |
Chapter 16 Local All Over | 255 |
Chapter 17 Clerical Errors | 272 |
Chapter 18 Lord But We Skirted the Edge | 289 |
Chapter 19 Justice at Last | 304 |
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