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Download or read book Mugwumps written by David M. Tucker and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited reevaluation of the public moralists who shaped public policy in nineteenth-century America, Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age provides a refreshing look at a group of Americans whose importance to the history of our country has commonly been dismissed. A public interest group that labeled the generation following the American Civil War as the "Gilded Age," Mugwumps were college-educated individuals who lived the lessons of their moral philosophy--Christian values, republican virtue, and classical liberalism. Tracing Mugwump values back before the term was commonly used, Tucker defines these liberals as benevolent and altruistic, active campaigners against slavery and imperialism, and for sound money, lower tariffs, and civil service reform. The earliest Mugwumps took on the self- assigned task of advocating public principles over private interests. Evaluations of these public moralists during the 1950s and 1960s, however, did not paint the Mugwumps in so positive a light. Awash in the popular New Deal public policies that advocated positive government intervention and regulation in the economy, these studies dismissed Mugwump liberalism as outdated. More specifically, the reformers were criticized as being self-interested failures. Tucker obliges readers to look beyond such dismissals to the history and accomplishments of Mugwumps as a whole. Unlike previous historians, Tucker examines the antebellum roots of the Mugwumps and follows their ever-increasing participation in American government throughout the nineteenth century. Tucker portrays Mugwumps not as selfish agents of the middle class but as fascinating practitioners of eighteenth-century public virtue and nineteenth-century social science. This book forcefully challenges previous studies on the Mugwumps and restores these public moralists to the mainstream of nineteenth-century American history. Their concerns for morality and free-market economics are again fashionable in contemporary politics and deserving of fresh attention from both the general reader and the scholar.
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Book Synopsis The Mugwumps, 1884-1900 by : Gerald W. McFarland
Download or read book The Mugwumps, 1884-1900 written by Gerald W. McFarland and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1975 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Groups, Parties, and Organizations That Shaped America [3 volumes] by : Scott H. Ainsworth Ph.D.
Download or read book Political Groups, Parties, and Organizations That Shaped America [3 volumes] written by Scott H. Ainsworth Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume set explores the multiple roles that parties and interest groups have played in American politics from the nation's beginnings to the present. This set serves as an essential resource for analyzing the emergence and impact of parties and interest groups in the American political system and for understanding the systematic and structural bases for interest group and party behavior. Volume One opens with an introduction by the editors that provides a general overview of the eras and identifies important themes and events, laying a foundation on which the subsequent essays and primary documents for each interest group or political party builds. Narrative essays focus on how specific parties or interest groups have shaped or reflect a particular set of events or general themes in each of the eras in American political history. Topical entries reflect key themes developed throughout the volumes. Entries range from important founding groups and parties to contemporary political action committees and policy advocacy groups. The set also includes primary source documents (e.g., letters, platform documents, court decisions, flyers, etc.) that reveal important dimensions of the corresponding group's political influence.
Book Synopsis The Mugwump Movement of 1884 by : Hermon King Murphey
Download or read book The Mugwump Movement of 1884 written by Hermon King Murphey and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mugwumps, Morals, & Politics, 1884-1920 by : Gerald W. McFarland
Download or read book Mugwumps, Morals, & Politics, 1884-1920 written by Gerald W. McFarland and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differing significantly from previous studies, McFarland's approach to the Mugwumps provides a balanced portrait of these Yankee reformers and their campaigns against boss rule in cities, corruption in national affairs, and American imperialism abroad. The conventional approach has been to concentrate on only a dozen or so of the best known Mugwumps and to trace their careers no further than 1900. In contrast, McFarland greatly extends the number of individuals whose activities must be considered reflections of the movement, discussing a sample of hundreds of active Mugwumps, and traces their careers well into the twentieth century. Mugwump orthodoxy is demonstrated by an examination of their largely negative goals in the anti-Blaine bolt of 1884, their narrow political program during the late 1880s, and their politically disastrous loyalty to Grover Cleveland. But their innovative side is also highlighted by a searching analysis of their successes, including their participation in the movement to professionalize such occupations as law, medicine, and higher education, and their contributions to urban, political, and social reform.
Book Synopsis The Mugwumps and the Labour Party by : Geoffrey Theodore Garratt
Download or read book The Mugwumps and the Labour Party written by Geoffrey Theodore Garratt and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civic Myths written by Brook Thomas and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Brook Thomas argues for revitalizing the role of literature in civic education. Thomas defines civic myths as compelling stories about national origin, membership, and values that are generated by conflicts within the concept of citizenship itself. Selected works of literature, he claims, work on these myths by challenging their terms at the same time that they work with them by relying on the power of narrative to produce compelling new stories. Civic Myths consists of four case studies: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and "the good citizen"; Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country" and "the patriotic citizen"; Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and "the independent citizen"; and Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and "the immigrant citizen." Thomas also provides analysis of the civic mythology surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the case of Ex parte Milligan. Engaging current debates about civil society, civil liberties, civil rights, and immigration, Thomas draws on the complexities of law and literature to probe the complexities of U.S. citizenship.
Book Synopsis Enemies of the American Way by : David Bell Mislan
Download or read book Enemies of the American Way written by David Bell Mislan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do presidents, when facing the same circumstances, focus on different threats to national security? Enemies of the American Way attempts to answer this question by investigating the role of identity in presidential decision making. The book explains why presidents disagree on what constitute a threat to the US security via the study of three US presidencies in the 19th century (Cleveland, Harrison and McKinley). These case studies help draw a theory of threat identification to understand how and why specific actions are taken, including the decision to wage war. Using a constructivist approach, the book develops a rule-based identity theory to posit that American identity defines potential national security threats, i.e., how a policymaker defines Americans also defines the threats to Americans. Enemies of the American Way offers a new means of understanding a key period when America rose to prominence in international relations while proposing a template that can be used to explain American foreign policy today. It will appeal to students of international relations and foreign policy.
Book Synopsis Liberal Republicans, Independents, Mugwumps by : Gerald J. Goodwin
Download or read book Liberal Republicans, Independents, Mugwumps written by Gerald J. Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Three Roosevelts by : James MacGregor Burns
Download or read book The Three Roosevelts written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “immensely interesting” account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough). The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York’s Knickerbocker elite to become the most prominent American political family of the twentieth century. As Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author James MacGregor Burns and acclaimed historian Susan Dunn follow the evolution of the Roosevelt political philosophy, they illuminate how Theodore’s example of dynamic leadership would later inspire the careers of his distant cousin Franklin and his niece Eleanor, who together forged a progressive political legacy that reverberated throughout the world. Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt led America through some of the most turbulent times in its history. The Three Roosevelts takes readers on an exhilarating voyage through these tumultuous decades of our nation’s past, and these momentous events are seen through the Roosevelts’ eyes, their actions, and their passions. Insightful and authoritative, this is a fascinating portrait of three of America’s greatest leaders, whose legacy is as controversial today as their vigorous brand of forward-looking politics was in their own lifetimes. “A remarkable example of narrative and biographical history at its best.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “A detailed study . . . Written with impeccable scholarship.” —Houston Chronicle “Show[s] how TR set FDR off on reform, and how Eleanor pushed Franklin, and how FDR used Eleanor as his legs . . . and as his conscience.” —The Boston Globe
Book Synopsis Presidents, Parties, and the State by : Scott C. James
Download or read book Presidents, Parties, and the State written by Scott C. James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominant theories of regulatory choice privilege the goals and actions of district-oriented legislators and organized groups. Presidents, Parties, and the State challenges this frame, placing presidential elections and national party leaders at the center of American regulatory state development. Historically the "out-party" in national politics, the Democratic party of Cleveland, Wilson, and Roosevelt confronted a political quandary which pit long-term ideological commitments against short-term electoral opportunities. In the end, the Democratic choice to consolidate power by legislating the programs of pivotal voting blocs proved consequential for the trajectory of American state development.
Book Synopsis American Political Cultures by : Richard J. Ellis
Download or read book American Political Cultures written by Richard J. Ellis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture is characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values. Ranging over three hundred years of history and drawing upon the seminal work anthropologist Mary Douglas, Richard Ellis demonstrates that American history is best understood as a contest between five rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism, and autonomous hermitude.
Book Synopsis The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880–1896 by : Daniel Klinghard
Download or read book The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880–1896 written by Daniel Klinghard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the creation of the first truly nationalized party organizations in the United States in the late nineteenth century, an innovation that reversed the parties' traditional privileging of state and local interests in nominating campaigns and the conduct of national campaigns. Between 1880 and 1896, party elites crafted a defense of these national organizations that charted the theoretical parameters of American party development into the twentieth century. With empowered national committees and a new understanding of the parties' role in the political system, national party leaders dominated American politics in new ways, renewed the parties' legitimacy in an increasingly pluralistic and nationalized political environment, and thus maintained their relevance throughout the twentieth century. The new organizations particularly served the interests of presidents and presidential candidates, and the little-studied presidencies of the late nineteenth century demonstrate the first stirrings of modern presidential party leadership.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History by : Andrew Robertson
Download or read book Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History written by Andrew Robertson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 4000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History explores the events, policies, activities, institutions, groups, people, and movements that have created and shaped political life in the United States. With contributions from scholars in the fields of history and political science, this seven-volume set provides students, researchers, and scholars the opportunity to examine the political evolution of the United States from the 1500s to the present day. With greater coverage than any other resource, the Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History identifies and illuminates patterns and interrelations that will expand the reader’s understanding of American political institutions, culture, behavior, and change. Focusing on both government and history, the Encyclopedia brings exceptional breadth and depth to the topic with more than 100 essays for each of the critical time periods covered.
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History written by and published by SAGE. This book was released on with total page 3885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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