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Tables of Contents for Market Elections
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Editor's Preface
xi
PART 1: FROM WASHINGTON TO COOLIDGE
Some notes on U.S. presidents
3
4
A visit to Tammany Hall
7
5
1828 | The Jackson Democrats
12
4
The Whigs and U.S. industry
16
4
1864 | War Democrats & Copperheads
20
5
After Civil War, uncivil peace
25
5
1876-1877 | The great betrayal
30
4
1876 | Reform and reaction
34
4
1884 | Democrats return to office
38
5
Monopolists take government
43
5
1889 | Blaine points imperialism south
48
4
1896 | The new parties
52
4
The farmer-labor upsurge
56
5
1896 | Bryan Democrats rebel
61
5
1896 | The power behind McKinley
66
5
1898 | The Spanish-American War
71
3
Imperialism grows at a gallop
74
4
1900 | Guns and butter
78
3
1900 | Mr. Imperialism
81
5
Teddy Roosevelt and Wall Street
86
5
1904 | Aim at barn, hit bull's eye
91
4
1908 | A new king-maker chooses Taft
95
4
1912 | The parties in disarray
99
5
1912 | The Wilsonian answer
104
4
1912 | Democrats on the `right' track
108
6
1912 | King-makers, God and Wilson
114
3
1912 | Wilson as reformer
117
4
The preparedness hoax
121
3
1916 | `He kept us out of war'
124
4
The `war to end war'
128
5
The secretaries of state and defense
133
6
1920 | Harvey grooms Harding
139
18
Political cartoons and photographs
147
10
PART 2: RIGGED ELECTIONS, 1876 TO 1976
Why only 1876 to 1976?
157
6
1876 | Stuffing ballots, smothering Black freedom
163
4
1880 | God and Garfield
167
4
1884 | Grover Cleveland, the honest hangman
171
3
1888 | Benjamin Harrison, dark horse with a grandfather
174
2
1892 | The people begin to revolt
176
6
1896 | Whirlwinds of danger
182
6
1900 | Theodore Roosevelt, the not-so-accidental president
188
2
1904 | Trusts reelect `trust buster'
190
4
The undemocratic primaries
194
3
1908 | William Howard Taft
197
3
1912 | The three-ring circus
200
6
1916 | `He kept us out of war'
206
3
1920 | Harding, the senator who was discreet
209
3
Debs and the Socialists
212
3
1924 | The Morgans run against themselves
215
4
1928 | `Who but Hoover?'
219
3
1932 | Depression and the rise of FDR
222
4
1936 | A semi-Bonapartist beats the bankers
226
3
1940 | War and the third term
229
3
1944 | Fourth term in a bonanza year
232
4
1948 | Time and Chase Manhattan get a surprise
236
2
1948 | Henry Wallace and the third Progressive Party
238
4
1952 | A scholar and a soldier
242
3
1956 | Affable general vs. would-be statesman (Round Two)
245
3
1960 | The last `normal' election
248
3
1964 | The peculiar split
251
4
1968 | Another election by assassination
255
4
1972 | When Watergate wasn't noticed
259
3
1973 | Nobody investigated the Watergate investigators
262
3
1974 | Not an election but a cold coup d'etat
265
3
1976 | Reagan vs. Ford in the party of Lincoln
268
11
Shedding a tear for Humphrey
279
6
Bibliography
285
4
Index
289