Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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Page 48
... elections of 1894 were important , not only because they established a context for the dramatic presidential election of 1896 but also because they marked the beginning of an eighteen - year Republican ascendancy in national politics ...
... elections of 1894 were important , not only because they established a context for the dramatic presidential election of 1896 but also because they marked the beginning of an eighteen - year Republican ascendancy in national politics ...
Page 52
... Election Returns and Their Meaning Watson of Georgia , helped to preserve party identity - but the cause had been lost . The McKinley - Bryan campaign , once it got under way , provided abun- dant material for a study in contrasts ...
... Election Returns and Their Meaning Watson of Georgia , helped to preserve party identity - but the cause had been lost . The McKinley - Bryan campaign , once it got under way , provided abun- dant material for a study in contrasts ...
Page 247
... election seemed negligible . After La Follette's futile effort , and after his death in 1925 , progressive forces disintegrated almost com- pletely . Some third - party men gave up on politics , at least temporarily , while others ...
... election seemed negligible . After La Follette's futile effort , and after his death in 1925 , progressive forces disintegrated almost com- pletely . Some third - party men gave up on politics , at least temporarily , while others ...
Contents
Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 3 |
MAPS | 21 |
American Society at the End of an Era | 34 |
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