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From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age Paperback - 2009

by Jon Franklin


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A short, elegant overview of politics at the close of the nineteenth century

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 of the century, however, burgeoning industrial development and the roller-coaster economy of the post-war decades had shifted the agenda to pocketbook concerns--the tariff, monetary policy, business regulation.

In From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner-Pail, the historian Charles W. Calhoun provides a brief, elegant overview of the transformation in national governance and its concerns in the Gilded Age. Sweeping from the election of Grant to the death of McKinley in 1901, this narrative history broadly sketches the intense and divided political universe of the period, as well as the colorful characters who inhabited it: the enigmatic and tragic Ulysses S. Grant; the flawed visionary James G. Blaine, at once the Plumed Knight and the Tattooed Man of American politics; Samuel J. "Slick Sammy" Tilden; the self-absorbed, self-righteous, and ultimately self-destructive Grover Cleveland; William Jennings Bryan, boy orator and godly tribune; and the genial but crafty William McKinley, who forged a national majority and launched the nation onto the world stage.

From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner-Pail also considers how the changes at the close of the nineteenth century opened the way for the transformations of the Progressive Era and the twentieth century.

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  • Title From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age
  • Author Jon Franklin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Good Condition
  • Pages 226
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, Gordonsville, VA, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780809047949 / 0809047942
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.8

About the author

Charles W. Calhoun is the Thomas Harriot College Distinguished Professor of History at East Carolina University. He is the author of, most recently, Benjamin Harrison, in Holt's American Presidents series.

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