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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

by Jon Grinspan

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 U.S. history, driven by vibrant campaigns that drew our highest-ever voter turnouts. At the

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9781635574623