Electoral Capitalism : : The Party System in New York's Gilded Age / / Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer.
Vast fortunes grew out of the party system during the Gilded Age. In New York, party leaders experimented with novel ways to accumulate capital for political competition and personal business. Partisans established banks. They drove a speculative frenzy in finance, real estate, and railroads. And th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Tammany Bank Run of 1871
- Chapter 1. Tammany Hall’s Lost Financial Sector
- Dawn of the Conkling Machine
- Chapter 2. Republican Party Business
- Can’t You Help Me in Gettin the Vacant Place for Me
- Chapter 3. Partisan Poor Relief
- The Henry George Boom Fades
- Chapter 4. Anti-Monopoly in the Age of Party Consolidation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments