The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928 - Hardcover
Portrays the history of voting from the spectacular ritual of a century ago, to educational electioneering, to the advertised campaigns of today
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Michael McGerr is Assistant Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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"Well written, well researched, and extensively footnoted....Recommended for college and university libraries."--Choice
"McGerr deftly traces the transformation from popular to elitist politics....[His] argument deserves a wide audience."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"McGerr arrays prodigious research in manuscript collections and newspapers....[He] approach[es] political history in fresh and energetic fashion and deserve[s] credit for impressive research that enables [him] to answer old questions in new and intriguing ways."--American Historical Review
"McGerr provides a rewarding, even nostalgic, glimpse into the way politics used to be in this country, and a reader can spin out some intriguing implications from his study."--The New Leader
"Carefully reasoned, persuasive....Revisionist history at its most enlightening."--Booklist
Michael McGerr is Assistant Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Well written, well researched, and extensively footnoted....Recommended for college and university libraries."--Choice
"McGerr deftly traces the transformation from popular to elitist politics....[His] argument deserves a wide audience."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"McGerr arrays prodigious research in manuscript collections and newspapers....[He] approach[es] political history in fresh and energetic fashion and deserve[s] credit for impressive research that enables [him] to answer old questions in new and intriguing ways."--American Historical Review
"McGerr provides a rewarding, even nostalgic, glimpse into the way politics used to be in this country, and a reader can spin out some intriguing implications from his study."--The New Leader
"Carefully reasoned, persuasive....Revisionist history at its most enlightening."--Booklist
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- ISBN 10 0735103593
- ISBN 13 9780735103597
- BindingHardcover
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