The Politicos, 1865-1896Harcourt, Brace, 1938 - 760 pages A lively history of the parties and the great party leaders who dominated American politics during the turbulent years of the "Robber Barons." |
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Page 202
... whole : he had been involved in the Santo Domingo project , as in the public- works adventures of Boss Shepherd's ... whole party machine but also the railroad magnates of the East , Tom Scott and Jay Gould , as well as the Whisky Ring ...
... whole : he had been involved in the Santo Domingo project , as in the public- works adventures of Boss Shepherd's ... whole party machine but also the railroad magnates of the East , Tom Scott and Jay Gould , as well as the Whisky Ring ...
Page 349
... whole legislatures repeatedly sold themselves to one side , then broke their contracts and sold themselves to the other — were exactly duplicated under the regime of Governor Leland Stanford in new California . The whole system for many ...
... whole legislatures repeatedly sold themselves to one side , then broke their contracts and sold themselves to the other — were exactly duplicated under the regime of Governor Leland Stanford in new California . The whole system for many ...
Page 371
... whole front page , was printed McDougall's powerful cartoon showing the statesman at the sumptuous table , sur- rounded by fat capitalists with huge " sparklers " upon their shirt fronts , while a poor skeleton of a citizen , with his ...
... whole front page , was printed McDougall's powerful cartoon showing the statesman at the sumptuous table , sur- rounded by fat capitalists with huge " sparklers " upon their shirt fronts , while a poor skeleton of a citizen , with his ...
Contents
18651868 | 3 |
The Spoilsmen | 61 |
The Spoilsmen in Power | 100 |
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