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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: age of acrimony
    sub title: how Americans fought to fix their democracy, 1865-1915
  name:
    name part: Grinspan, Jon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A raucous history of American democracy at its wildest, and a bold rethinking of the relationship between the people and their politics. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War. Shaken by economic and technological disruption, they sought safety in aggressive, tribal partisanship. The results were the loudest, closest, most violent elections in American history, driven by vibrant campaigns that drew our highest-ever voter turnouts. At the century's end, reformers finally restrained this wild system, trading away participation for civility in the process. The result was a calmer, cleaner democracy, but also a more distant one. Americans' voting rates crashed and never recovered. This is the origin story of the "normal" politics of the 20th century. Only by exploring where that civility and restraint came from can we understand what is happening to our democracy today. The Age of Acrimony charts the rise and fall of 19th-century America's unruly politics through the lives of a remarkable father-daughter dynasty. The radical congressman William "Pig Iron" Kelley and his fiery, Progressive daughter Florence Kelley led lives packed with drama, intimately tied to their nation's politics. Through their friendships and feuds, campaigns and crusades, Will and Florie trace the narrative of a democracy in crisis. In telling the tale of what it cost to cool our republic, historian Jon Grinspan reveals our divisive political system's enduring capacity to heal itself.
  note: Jon Grinspan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-us-pa
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kelley, William D. (William Darrah)
      name part: 1814-1890
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kelley, Florence
      name part: 1859-1932
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress.
      name part: House
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1865-1933
  subject:
    topic: Social problems
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Women social reformers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Legislators
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Philadelphia (Pa.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
  classification: E661 .G756 2021
  classification: 303.48/40922 B
  identifier: 9781635574623
  identifier: 1635574625
  identifier: 9781635574630
  identifier: 2020053954
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201130
    record change date: 20210728155556.0
    record identifier: in00004395160