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Counterfeiting Labor's Voice : William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics
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Counterfeiting Labor's Voice : William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics / Mark A. Lause.
ISBN
9780252056666
9780252087899
9780252045783
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©[2024]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause's biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing trailblazer and master of dirty tricks, Carsey fit perfectly into a Democratic Party that based much of its post-Civil War revival on shattering third parties and gathering up the pieces. Lause provides an in-depth look at Carsey's tactics and successes against the backdrop of enormous changes in political life. As Carsey used a carefully crafted public persona to burrow into unsuspecting organizations, the forces he represented worked to create a political system that turned voters into disengaged civic consumers and cemented America's ever-fractious two-party system"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 26, 2024
Series
The working class in American history
Contents
Prologue. Carsey's paternities : the son of the streets and the odysseys of Father Columbia
Paper party power broker : the entrepreneurial roots of labor reform insurgency
Independents and partisan pantomimes : the dilemma of third parties under a two-party system
Counterfeiting class : the secret society tradition and the deep origins of the American Federation of Labor
Monopolizing antimonopolism : Ben Butler and the preemption of insurgency
The path through populism : from Henry George to William Jennings Bryan
Epilogue. Carsey's progeny : the forgotten grandfather of American progressivism and the political unmaking of an American working class.
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