Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Investigation and RetrenchmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Report and Testimony of the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment on Alleged Frauds in the New York Custom-house
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Investigation and RetrenchmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Testimony in Relation to Alleged Frauds in the New York Custom House
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Investigation and RetrenchmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Berkshire Athenaeum and MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Checklist of Hearings Before Congressional Committees Through the Sixty-seventh Congress
Author: Harold Ordell ThomenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Checklist of Hearings Before Congressional Committees
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Electoral Capitalism
Author: Jeffrey D. BroxmeyerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297237
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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 they built empires that stretched from mining to steamboats, and from liquor distilleries to newspapers. Control over political property—party organizations, public charters, taxpayer subsidies, and political offices—served to form governing coalitions, and to mobilize voting blocs. In Electoral Capitalism, Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer reappraises the controversy over wealth inequality, and why this period was so combustible. As ranks of the dispossessed swelled, an outpouring of claims transformed the old spoils system into relief for the politically connected poor. A vibrant but scorned culture of petty officeholding thus emerged. By the turn of the century, an upsurge of grassroots protest sought to dislodge political bosses from their apex by severing the link between party and capital. Examining New York, and its outsized role in national affairs, Broxmeyer demonstrates that electoral capitalism was a category of entrepreneurship in which the capture of public office and the accumulation of wealth were mutually reinforcing. The book uncovers hidden economic ties that wove together presidents, senators, and mayors with business allies, spoilsmen, and voters. Today, great political fortunes have dramatically returned. As current public debates invite parallels with the Gilded Age, Broxmeyer offers historical and theoretical tools to make sense of how politics begets wealth.
Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Report and Testimony of the Committee on Investigation and Retrenchment, on Alleged Frauds in the New York Custom-House
Author: United States Congress SenatePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378545089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
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