The Politicos, 1865-1896Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938 - 760 pages A lively history of the parties and the great party oeaders who dominated American politics during the turbulent eyrs of the "Robber Barons." |
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... movement ; it was carried for- ward with the tremendous energy of the American labor movement in its youth , and reached its first goal at once : the stoppage of the railroad system upon a nation - wide scale . The politicians ...
... movement ; it was carried for- ward with the tremendous energy of the American labor movement in its youth , and reached its first goal at once : the stoppage of the railroad system upon a nation - wide scale . The politicians ...
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... movement often embraced the technique of the big - top circus . His language , especially on the score of " usurers , " was sometimes impolitic , often perfervid . But after allowance is made for the eccentricities of Coxey's movement ...
... movement often embraced the technique of the big - top circus . His language , especially on the score of " usurers , " was sometimes impolitic , often perfervid . But after allowance is made for the eccentricities of Coxey's movement ...
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Matthew Josephson. The Free Silver movement is a fake . Free Silver is the cow - bird of the Reform movement . It waited until the nest had been built by the sacrifices and labour of others , and then it laid its eggs in it . . . . The ...
Matthew Josephson. The Free Silver movement is a fake . Free Silver is the cow - bird of the Reform movement . It waited until the nest had been built by the sacrifices and labour of others , and then it laid its eggs in it . . . . The ...
Contents
18651868 | 3 |
The Spoilsmen | 61 |
The Spoilsmen in Power | 100 |
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