To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891 by Williamjames Hull Hoffer

To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891

Williamjames Hull Hoffer

280 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

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How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the daily proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate fr...

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