Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Judgment Day -- 1. No Business To-Day Other Than Politics -- 2. The Dispirit of '76 -- 3. The Bloody Shirt--In Hoc Signo Vinces -- 4. The Politics of Personality -- 5. O Temperance, O Mores! -- 6. The Protection Racket -- 7. The Democrats Rise from the Dead -- 8. The Passing of Arthur -- 9. We Love Him for the Enemies He Has Made -- 10. The Public Be Crammed! -- 11. Love's Libels Lost -- 12. Windypendents' Day -- 13. Ireland Sold for Gold! -- 14. Sideshows -- 15. Carrying the War into Africa -- 16. Local All Over -- 17. Clerical Errors -- 18. Lord! But We Skirted the Edge! -- 19. Justice at Last! -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Examines one of the dirtiest presidential campaigns in American history. The author suggests that both Democrats and Republicans sensed a political system falling apart, as voters drifted from being affiliated to a specific party to voting according to a candidate's stand on a particular issue
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index
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