Author: M. A. ClancyPublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Proceedings of the Republican National Convention Held at Cincinniati, Ohio, June 14, 15, and 16, 1876
Author: M. A. ClancyPublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Proceedings of the Republican National Convention Held at ...
Author: Official Proceedings of the National Republican Conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880
Author: Reports of the Proceedings of Party Conventions, 1832-1904
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Official Proceedings of the National Republican Conventions of ...
Author: Proceedings of the National Union Republican Convention Held at ...
Author: Official Report of the Proceedings
Author: Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924
Author: Melanie GustafsonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Acclaimed as groundbreaking since its publication, Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 explores the forces that propelled women to partisan activism in an era of widespread disfranchisement and provides a new perspective on how women fashioned their political strategies and identities before and after 1920. Melanie Susan Gustafson examines women's partisan history against the backdrop of women's political culture. Contesting the accepted notion that women were uninvolved in political parties before gaining the vote, Gustafson reveals the length and depth of women's partisan activism between the founding of the Republican Party, whose abolitionist agenda captured the loyalty of many women, and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Her account also looks at the complex interplay of partisan and nonpartisan activity; the fierce debates among women about how to best use their influence; the ebb and flow of enthusiasm for women's participation; and the third parties that fused the civic world of reform organizations with the electoral world of voting and legislation.
Closing the Gate
Author: Andrew GyoryPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786675X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open immigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for future restrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s and against Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Andrew Gyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politics during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Rather than directly confront such divisive problems as class conflict, economic depression, and rising unemployment, he contends, politicians sought a safe, nonideological solution to the nation's industrial crisis--and latched onto Chinese exclusion. Ignoring workers' demands for an end simply to imported contract labor, they claimed instead that working people would be better off if there were no Chinese immigrants. By playing the race card, Gyory argues, national politicians--not California, not organized labor, and not a general racist atmosphere--provided the motive force behind the era's most racist legislation.
The Unexpected President
Author: Scott S. GreenbergerPublisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 030682390X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
When President James Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Vice President Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective president, a courageous anti-corruption reformer, and an early civil rights advocate. Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority of his fellow citizens but by his own conscience. As President James A. Garfield struggled for his life, Arthur knew better than his detractors that he failed to meet the high standard a president must uphold. And yet, from the moment President Arthur took office, he proved to be not just honest but brave, going up against the very forces that had controlled him for decades. He surprised everyone -- and gained many enemies -- when he swept house and took on corruption, civil rights for blacks, and issues of land for Native Americans. A mysterious young woman deserves much of the credit for Arthur's remarkable transformation. Julia Sand, a bedridden New Yorker, wrote Arthur nearly two dozen letters urging him to put country over party, to find "the spark of true nobility" that lay within him. At a time when women were barred from political life, Sand's letters inspired Arthur to transcend his checkered past--and changed the course of American history. This beautifully written biography tells the dramatic, untold story of a virtually forgotten American president. It is the tale of a machine politician and man-about-town in Gilded Age New York who stumbled into the highest office in the land, only to rediscover his better self when his nation needed him.