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Calhoun, Charles W. Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888 (2008) 243 pp. Campbell, Tracy. Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, An American Political Tradition, 1742–2004 (Basic Books, 2005) Cheathem, Mark R. The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson (2018) excerpt
While most elections from 1876 through 1892 were extremely close, the opposition Democrats won only the 1884 and 1892 presidential elections (the Democrats also won the popular vote in the 1876 and 1888 presidential elections, but lost the electoral college vote), though from 1875 to 1895 the party usually controlled the United States House of ...
36.2% of the voting age population and 80.6% of eligible voters participated in the election. [75] The extremely close election, with very high turnout, reflected the typical pattern of the Gilded Age. Democrats were assured of a Solid South electoral vote, as well as most of the border states.
The term Gilded Age was applied to the era by 1920s historians who took the term from one of Mark Twain's lesser-known novels, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). The book (co-written with Charles Dudley Warner ) satirized the promised " golden age " after the Civil War, portrayed as an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold ...
The Best Men: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age (1982). ISBN 0-226-76990-9. Summers, Mark Wahlgren (2000). Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884. (University of North Carolina Press). Summers, Mark Wahlgren (2004). Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics (University of North Carolina Press).
A main character in "The Gilded Age" is a young Black woman pursuing a journalism career. Newport had its own real-life version of Peggy Scott.
The election had the highest voter turnout of the eligible voting-age population in American history, at 82.6%. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Tilden's 50.9% is the largest share of the popular vote received by a candidate who was not elected to the presidency , and was the only presidential election in U.S. history in which the losing candidate won a majority of ...
In reality, the color line was becoming much more rigid during the Gilded Age," said Dunbar. "Our characters — Peggy in particular — have to maneuver in order to to to thrive.” ...