The Greased Pig
An online conversation about the politics of the Gilded Age.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The "Ponderous Tilt-Hammer"
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Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster. James Grant: Simon and Schuster 2011. Financial ...
Friday, March 19, 2010
Another View of Cleveland and his Banker
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Banker J.P. Morgan and President Grover Cleveland are the subjects of a brief, provocative essay by historian John Steele Gordon that appear...
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Pundits and Populism
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William Jennings Bryan (Chicago Historical Society). A history professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago has weighed in with a thou...
Saturday, February 13, 2010
David Frum on the Mugwumps
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In a recent edition of The Atlantic Monthly, conservative writer David Frum argues that the Mugwumps offer a worthy model for conservatives:...
Friday, June 5, 2009
Weaver Biography Wins Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award
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Skirmisher: The Life, Times, and Political Career of James B. Weaver has been honored with the State Historical Society of Iowa's Benjam...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
A New Look at Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Here's Alice Schroeder's review of T.J. Stiles' The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. http://www.washingtonpo...
Monday, May 25, 2009
An Iowa Memorial Day, 1895
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The Rev. George E. Mitchell presided at the Memorial Day observance in Davis City, Iowa, in 1895. More than thirty years after the guns fel...
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