附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index.
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
摘要: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.
