From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age by Charles W. Calhoun

From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age

Charles W. Calhoun

224 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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In the wake of civil war, American politics were racially charged and intensely sectionalist, with politicians waving the proverbial bloody shirt and encouraging their constituents, as Republicans did in 1868, to “vote as you shot.” By the close o...

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