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Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884
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by Mark Wahlgren Summers


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The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest in American history, remembered today less for its political significance than for the mudslinging and slander that characterized the campaign. But a closer look at the infamous election reveals far more complexity than previous stereotypes allowed, argues Mark Summers. Behind all the mud and malarkey, he says, lay a world of issues and consequences.

Summers suggests that both Democrats and Republicans sensed a political system breaking apart, or perhaps a new political order forming, as voters began to drift away from voting by party affiliation toward voting according to a candidate's stand on specific issues. Mudslinging, then, was done not for public entertainment but to tear away or confirm votes that seemed in doubt. Uncovering the issues that really powered the election and stripping away the myths that still surround it, Summers uses the election of 1884 to challenge many of our preconceptions about Gilded Age politics.

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Mark Summers challenges many preconceptions about Gilded Age politics in this close look at the infamous 1884 presidential campaign between Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine. The mudslinging and slander were not for public entertainment, he argues, but to tear away or confirm votes that were in doubt during a time when voters were drifting away from party loyalty.

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  • Title Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884
  • Author Mark Wahlgren Summers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-03-20
  • ISBN 9780807848494 / 0807848492
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.16 x 0.94 in (23.52 x 15.65 x 2.39 cm)
  • Reading level 1240
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Presidents - United States - Election - 1884
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99034238
  • Dewey Decimal Code 324.273

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  • Choice, 09/01/2000, Page 206

About the author

Mark Wahlgren Summers is professor of history at the University of Kentucky and author of "The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878."
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