The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in DemocracyThis work discusses how politics, democracy, and the presidency evolved in the United States from 1789 to 1923. |
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... rich as opposed to the Jackson rabble . But the rich in the South had no common interest with the rich in the manufacturing North . And the Westerners who followed Clay into the party were not rich at all , but merely wished a strong ...
... rich as opposed to the Jackson rabble . But the rich in the South had no common interest with the rich in the manufacturing North . And the Westerners who followed Clay into the party were not rich at all , but merely wished a strong ...
Page 213
... Rich and poor joined in throwing con- tempt on their own representatives . Society laughed a vacant and meaningless derision over its own failures ... The people ... stood helpless before the chaos ; some laughed and some raved ; all ...
... Rich and poor joined in throwing con- tempt on their own representatives . Society laughed a vacant and meaningless derision over its own failures ... The people ... stood helpless before the chaos ; some laughed and some raved ; all ...
Page 274
... rich . The last two points were popular with the people ; the first was a mere acceptance of what was bound to happen in an era of Big Business . All the great corporate ' per- sons ' whose rights were protected by the Fourteenth ...
... rich . The last two points were popular with the people ; the first was a mere acceptance of what was bound to happen in an era of Big Business . All the great corporate ' per- sons ' whose rights were protected by the Fourteenth ...
Contents
WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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