Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883University of Illinois Press, 1961 - 306 pages Civil service reform was a major political issue in the post-Civil War United States. It made and broke presidents, would-be presidents, and a number of lesser political futures. No other American movement has claimed more intellectual and social leaders. Among them were Henry Adams, Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin, George William Curtis, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry C. Lea, and Henry Villard. This books examines the reform movement using both standard historical techniques and the methodology of the sociologist and social psychologist to mirror the role of civil service reformers while showing the history of their movement. |
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... Democrats would not work with the same zeal if offices were not held out to them . Contradicting his earlier warning that if victorious the bill would leave Democrats with only the lowest positions as plunder , Brown claimed that the ...
... Democrats would not work with the same zeal if offices were not held out to them . Contradicting his earlier warning that if victorious the bill would leave Democrats with only the lowest positions as plunder , Brown claimed that the ...
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... Democratic exponent of his bill outside of the South.16 The four other nonsouthern Democrats , all from the Far West , did not vote . Even in the South itself , 14 Democrats voted for the bill , while 10 opposed it ; thus both Democratic ...
... Democratic exponent of his bill outside of the South.16 The four other nonsouthern Democrats , all from the Far West , did not vote . Even in the South itself , 14 Democrats voted for the bill , while 10 opposed it ; thus both Democratic ...
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... Democrats voting in the affirmative . A third Democrat representing the area north of Baltimore also voted for the bill , while his fellow partisans from the rural Eastern Shore and the area south of Baltimore did not vote on the ...
... Democrats voting in the affirmative . A third Democrat representing the area north of Baltimore also voted for the bill , while his fellow partisans from the rural Eastern Shore and the area south of Baltimore did not vote on the ...
Contents
JENCKES ASSAULTS THE SPOILS SYSTEM | 13 |
REINFORCEMENTS FOR JENCKES | 33 |
GRANT FAILS REFORMERS | 50 |
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Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883 Ari Arthur Hoogenboom No preview available - 1982 |
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