Gilded Age Cato

Gilded Age Cato
Title Gilded Age Cato PDF eBook
Author Charles W. Calhoun
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 289
Release 2014-07-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0813161797

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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 First Presidential Contest

The First Presidential Contest
Title The First Presidential Contest PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey L. Pasley
Publisher University Press of Kansas
Pages 528
Release 2016-12-04
Genre History
ISBN 0700623515

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This is the first study in half a century to focus on the election of 1796. At first glance, the first presidential contest looks unfamiliar—parties were frowned upon, there was no national vote, and the candidates did not even participate (the political mores of the day forbade it). Yet for all that, Jeffrey L. Pasley contends, the election of 1796 was “absolutely seminal,” setting the stage for all of American politics to follow. Challenging much of the conventional understanding of this election, Pasley argues that Federalist and Democratic-Republican were deeply meaningful categories for politicians and citizens of the 1790s, even if the names could be inconsistent and the institutional presence lacking. He treats the 1796 election as a rough draft of the democratic presidential campaigns that came later rather than as the personal squabble depicted by other historians. It set the geographic pattern of New England competing with the South at the two extremes of American politics, and it established the basic ideological dynamic of a liberal, rights-spreading American left arrayed against a conservative, society-protecting right, each with its own competing model of leadership. Rather than the inner thoughts and personal lives of the Founders, covered in so many other volumes, Pasley focuses on images of Adams and Jefferson created by supporters-and detractors-through the press, capturing the way that ordinary citizens in 1796 would have actually experienced candidates they never heard speak. Newspaper editors, minor officials, now forgotten congressman, and individual elector candidates all take a leading role in the story to show how politics of the day actually worked. Pasley's cogent study rescues the election of 1796 from the shadow of 1800 and invites us to rethink how we view that campaign and the origins of American politics.

United States Presidential Elections

United States Presidential Elections
Title United States Presidential Elections PDF eBook
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Publisher PediaPress
Pages 1091
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Political Parties in the United States 1800-1914

Political Parties in the United States 1800-1914
Title Political Parties in the United States 1800-1914 PDF eBook
Author Alta Blanche Claflin
Publisher
Pages 104
Release 1915
Genre Political parties
ISBN

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The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900

The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
Title The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900 PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 352
Release 1889
Genre American literature
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Annual Report of the trustees of the Astor Library of the city of New York

Annual Report of the trustees of the Astor Library of the city of New York
Title Annual Report of the trustees of the Astor Library of the city of New York PDF eBook
Author Astor Library
Publisher
Pages 58
Release 1889
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Annual Report

Annual Report
Title Annual Report PDF eBook
Author Astor Library
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Pages 1084
Release 1875
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