President-Making in the Gilded Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook President-Making in the Gilded Age write by Stan M. Haynes. This book was released on 2015-11-27. President-Making in the Gilded Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nominating conventions were the highlight of presidential elections in the Gilded Age, an era when there were no primaries, no debates and nominees did little active campaigning. Unlike modern conventions, the outcomes were not so seemingly predetermined. Historians consider the late 19th century an era of political corruption, when party bosses controlled the conventions and chose the nominees. Yet the candidates nominated by both Republicans and Democrats during this period won despite the opposition of the bosses, and were opposed by them once in office. This book analyzes the pageantry, drama, speeches, strategies, platforms, deal-making and often surprising outcomes of the presidential nominating conventions of the Gilded Age, debunking many wildely-held beliefs about politics in a much-maligned era.
Gilded Age Cato
Gilded Age Cato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gilded Age Cato write by Charles W. Calhoun. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Gilded Age Cato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Union general, federal judge, presidential contender, and cabinet officer—Walter Q. Gresham of Indiana stands as an enigmatic character in the politics of the Gilded Age, one who never seemed comfortable in the offices he sought. This first scholarly biography not only follows the turns of his career but seeks also to find the roots of his disaffection. Entering politics as a Whig, Gresham shortly turned to help organize the new Republican Party and was a contender for its presidential nomination in the 1880s. But he became popular with labor and with the Populists and closed his political career by serving as secretary of state under Grover Cleveland. In reviewing Gresham's conduct of foreign affairs, Charles W. Calhoun disputes the widely held view that he was an economic expansionist who paved the way for imperialism. Gresham, instead, is seen here as a traditionalist who tried to steer the country away from entanglements abroad. It is this traditionalism that Calhoun finds to be the clue to Gresham's career. Troubled with self-doubt, Gresham, like the Cato of old, sought strength in a return to the republican virtues of the Revolutionary generation. Based on a thorough use of the available resources, this will stand as the definitive biography of an important figure in American political and diplomatic history, and in its portrayal of a man out of step with his times it sheds a different light on the politics of the Gilded Age.
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gilded Age write by Mark Twain. This book was released on 1904. The Gilded Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chester Alan Arthur write by Gregory J. Dehler. This book was released on 2007. Chester Alan Arthur available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arthur's greatest success was in cutting the surplus, although it was a modest reduction, maintaining the protectionist tariff system, achieving civil service reform, and rebuilding the navy. Like every president he did disappoint and he carefully crafted his politics to achieve his ends. The years of Arthur's administration were ones of great changes. Industrial growth and consolidation led to massive economic changes. Companies were no longer local entities, but now competed in the international marketplace. Single companies took over entire industries. John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and John P. Morgan ushered in the era of the trust. In North Carolina, James Duke began mass producing cigarettes, the first significant step on the way to a national economy based on consumption.
The Gilded Age Presidency Reconsidered
The Gilded Age Presidency Reconsidered - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gilded Age Presidency Reconsidered write by William L. Ketchersid. This book was released on 2003. The Gilded Age Presidency Reconsidered available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dynamic collection of inspirational poetry, which stimulates the imaginative awareness of universal experiences. This book deals with the inner most personal thoughts and emotions associated with growth and change. A book that offers encouragement through four sections of continuous pages of powerful and poignant selections. Gift of Expression is a contemporary poetry book, that transcends time, with relative subject matter, that encompasses all facets of life. This book is a reflection of the Universal Soul and truly a gift of expression.
