10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPOILSMEN»
Discover the use of
spoilsmen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spoilsmen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Spoilsmen in a "flowery Fairyland": The Development of the ...
An examination of the first 11 US ministers to Japan, exploring the information, expectations and values they took with them and how they shaped US diplomacy with Japan in the late 19th century.
Leonard Hammersmith, 1998
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War
Although minorities would nullify unnecessary taxes, no interest would veto
necessary expenses for national defense; and legitimate military appropriations
would alone stimulate violent conflicts between spoilsmen. "For prompt and
effective ...
William W. Freehling, 1994
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Trail of the
Spoilsmen in the Gainesville, Ga., Post Office: ...
Essay by Helen Dortch Longstreet concerning her re-appointment to the Gainesville, Georgia, Post Office
Helen Dortch Longstreet, Clark T. Thornton, 2010
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Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, ...
federalists and Spoilsmen, Hanks and free ^Trade Tarty Ideologies and "
Economic Tolicy The two-party system that crystallized in Tennessee in the 1839
state elections proved over the next two decades to be, among the state political
...
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Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People
The Mugwumps were, in part, heirs to the Liberal Republicans, a group of
Republican dissidents who denounced corruption within the Grant administration
and in Republican-ruled southern governments and the spoilsmen in general.
David Edwin Harrell, Jr., Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, 2005
He must be able to meet, contend with, and not be overreached by, all kinds of
spoilsmen. He must possess an encyclopedia of knowledge of state affairs and
public men. Sometimes, for the good of the state, he must be mild mannered,
argue, ...
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The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: |
National spoilsmen desired a southern region asleep to slavery's dangers and an
aristocratic culture infatuated with an egalitarianism mentality. Once demagogic
wielders of the new mobocratic politics had dazed the elitists and dazzled the ...
William W. Freehling, 1990
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Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South ...
As Calhounites looked back over American history with this fear of spoilsmen in
mind, they thought they saw (and to some extent, correctly saw) a portentous
change in the nature of national political leadership. In the era of the Founding ...
William W. Freehling, 1992
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Theodore Roosevelt and World Order
scourged “spoilsmen” in agencies such as the Baltimore post office. One
common practice, as Roosevelt discovered when investigating the Baltimore
postmaster general, a Mr. Brown, was assessing subordinates for contributions to
their ...
James R. Holmes autofilled, 2006
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPOILSMEN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
spoilsmen is used in the context of the following news items.
Jeb and the 'Immortal 306'
Grant had been exceedingly generous to these spoilsmen, but at great cost to the party's reputation. Corruption had become an issue by the end of his term, and ... «The Weekly Standard, Feb 15»
10 'Nation' Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR's Early Days to …
Throughout the Harrison Administration he pursued the spoilsmen 'with a sharp stick,' although they belonged to his own party, and he will not be any easier ... «The Nation., Oct 14»
The CLEANING of a GREAT CITY (McClure's, April 1897)
Whatever may be the differences of their members in a vocation or in attainments, when it is a question of the government of the city, by the spoilsmen, for the ... «Brooklyn Rail, Mar 12»
The Spoilsmen: How Congress Corrupted Patent Reform
But as the current patent struggle suggests, the spoilsmen are back and Washington is once again an arbiter of who lands the lucre. "Congress has lost any ... «Huffington Post, Aug 11»
Irish General Election 2011: 'All changed, changed utterly' since …
... a rare event in the Irish political system where the modern Age of the Spoilsmen has eclipsed the notion of public service first and self-interest second. «FinFacts Ireland, Jan 11»
Brian Cowen - - Ireland's Herbert Hoover in denial to the last as …
The spoilsmen looked upon political power as a means of participating in the general riches, of becoming wealthy in their smaller ways and by their lesser ... «FinFacts Ireland, Nov 10»
King Of The Lobby: The Great Barbecue
March 12, 2010 Conditions were ripe to spawn a ruthless era in which special interests, spoilsmen, and corruption seemed to ooze out the doors of every ... «National Journal, Mar 10»
Book review: "King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward …
"Conditions were ripe to spawn a ruthless era in which special interests, spoilsmen, and corruption seemed to ooze out the doors of every government office," ... «Washington Post, Feb 10»
Fianna Fáil minister says his department should be abolished …
A Fianna Fáil minister once called publicly for his department to be abolished - - a rare event in the Irish political system where the modern Age of the Spoilsmen ... «FinFacts Ireland, Oct 09»
A Distant Mirror
... Politicos” is not merely a catalog of money-in-politics, it is a study of the logic and development of money-in-politics, from the crude grasping of the “spoilsmen” ... «New York Times, Aug 06»
