Counterfeiting Labor's Voice

William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics

Mark A. Lause (Autor)

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208 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04578-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Mark A. Lause is a professor in the department of history at the University of Cincinnati. His many books include Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era and Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class.

Introduction

Acknowledgments

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

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Working Class in American History
Zusatzinfo	9 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-252-04578-5 / 0252045785
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04578-3 / 9780252045783
Zustand	Neuware