Roger C. Sullivan and the Making of the Chicago Democratic Machine, 1881-1908 - Softcover

Morton, Richard Allen

 
9781476663777: Roger C. Sullivan and the Making of the Chicago Democratic Machine, 1881-1908
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476663777 ISBN 13: 9781476663777
Verlag: McFarland, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Dominating the Windy City for decades, the Chicago Democratic Machine has become a fixture in American political history. Under Mayor Richard J. Daley, it acquired almost mythical (perhaps notorious) status. Yet its origins have remained murky--some say is began as a shady enterprise during the ethnic upheaval of the late 1920s. Based upon new research, this book offers a fresh perspective. Formed through factional warfare and consolidated with methods borrowed from the business world, the Machine grew out of the unfettered capitalism of the late 19th century. Its principal founder and first "boss," Roger C. Sullivan, represented a generation of businessmen-politicians who emerged in the 1880s. Sullivan and his allies created an informal public power structure that, while serving their own interests, also made government more functional. The Machine is a product of America's Gilded Age and the Progressive Era and offers a lesson in the advantages and limitations of representative government.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Allen Morton is a professor of history at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia and is the author of several publications on American political history. He lives in Mableton, Georgia.

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1476663777
ISBN 13 
9781476663777
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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