Mark A. Lause

Counterfeiting Labor's Voice

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

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Working Class in American History
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 228mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780252087899
• ISBN-10: 0252087895
• Artikelnr.: 69923315

Autorenporträt

Mark A. Lause

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Prologue  Carsey’s Paternities: The Son of the Streets and the Odysseys of
Father Columbia
1. Paper Party Power Broker: The Entrepreneurial Roots of Labor Reform
Insurgency
2. Independents and Partisan Pantomimes: The Dilemma of Third Parties
under a Two-Party System
3. Counterfeiting Class: The Secret Society Tradition and the Deep
Origins of the American Federation of Labor
4. Monopolizing Antimonopolism: Ben Butler and the Preemption of
Insurgency
5. 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