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Mark Summers challenges many preconceptions about Gilded Age politics in this close look at the infamous 1884 presidential campaign between Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine. The mudslinging and slander were not for public entertainment, he argues, but to tear away or confirm votes that were in doubt during a time when voters were drifting away from party loyalty.Summers, Mark Wahlgren is the author of 'Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion The Making of a President, 1884', published 2000 under ISBN 9780807848494 and ISBN 0807848492.
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