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Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807848494 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 03/20/2000 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 408 |
Sales rank: | 724,029 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.88(d) |
Lexile: | 1240L (what's this?) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: Judgment Day
Chapter 1. No Business To-Day Other Than Politics
Chapter 2. The Dispirit of '76
Chapter 3. The Bloody ShirtIn Hoc Signo Vinces
Chapter 4. The Politics of Personality
Chapter 5. O Temperance, O Mores!
Chapter 6. The Protection Racket
Chapter 7. The Democrats Rise from the Dead
Chapter 8. The Passing of Arthur
Chapter 9. We Love Him for the Enemies He Has Made
Chapter 10. The Public Be Crammed!
Chapter 11. Love's Libels Lost
Chapter 12. Windypendents' Day
Chapter 13. Ireland Sold for Gold!
Chapter 14. Sideshows
Chapter 15. Carrying the War into Africa
Chapter 16. Local All Over
Chapter 17. Clerical Errors
Chapter 18. Lord! But We Skirted the Edge!
Chapter 19. Justice at Last!
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
"Another voice for Cleveland"
The Blaine tariff fraud
"His own destroyer"
Death at the polls and free from "federal interference"
"Mr. Tilden's body-guard"
"This puts me in the devil of a position"
A cartoon of what Democrats thought Readjuster rule meant
"Rival rag-pickers"
"The 'magnetic' Blaine"
"A grand Shakespearian revival"
"A big job"
"Her platform going to pieces"
"Senator Bayard strikes his grand attitude on the tariff question"
"Cleveland the celibate"
"Made harmless at last!"
"Blaine leans towards Logan"
"Phryne before the Chicago tribunal"
"He courts the mother and means the daughter"
He can't beat his record
"Those dogs won't fightthey are dying of starvation"
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What People are Saying About This
Summers's special contribution to revisionism is that he demonstrates how even the election of 1884 fits into a revisionist framework. . . . Anyone wishing to understand the broader context behind those stories will find Summers's analysis of great value.Labor History
Written with gusto and peppered with insights, this is old-fashioned political history at its best.American Historical Review
Summers is especially informative in his analysis of the attempts by the Republicans and Democrats to exploit third parties such as the Prohibitionists and Greenbackers to further their own electoral chances. . . . Deeply researched and presented in a colorful narrative style, this is a work that ranks with Geoffrey Blodgett's The Gentle Reformers (1966) and Robert Marcus's Grand Old Party (1971) for the revealing window that it opens on Gilded Age politics.North Carolina Historical Review
Those seeking an introduction to the business of politics in the 1880s will find pithy quotations, good coverage of the scandals of the campaign, and a wealth of information on Republicans and Democrats.The Journal of American History
[An] interesting and ably argued book.Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
A very good book. . . . It deserves an audience that reaches beyond academia.Virginia Quarterly Review
For those who believe that running for president is the real national pastime and who enjoy reading history, this book will be of great interest. . . . Mark Summers has written a very good book. . . . It deserves an audience that reaches beyond academia.Virginia Quarterly Review
Summers has unearthed sexual scandals, petty rivalries, comic happenstances, and enough historical drama to nurture interest in 1884 among the most jaded readers. . . . Summers's true scholarship and thoroughness will impress historians and election buffs alike.Choice
A terrific read for scholars and history buffs alike, full of new insights and crackling stories about a little-understood era of politics.Michael Les Benedict, Ohio State University