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The Age of Acrimony
How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
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The Age of Acrimony
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Johnny Heller
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Jon Grinspan
A penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics.
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 century’s end, reformers finally restrained this wild system, trading away participation for civility in the process. They built a calmer, cleaner democracy, but also a more distant one. Americans’ voting rates crashed and never fully recovered.
This is the origin story of the “normal” politics of the 20th century. Only by exploring where that civility and restraint came from can we understand what is happening to our democracy today.
The Age of Acrimony charts the rise and fall of 19th-century America’s unruly politics through the lives of a remarkable father-daughter dynasty. The radical congressman William “Pig Iron” Kelley and his fiery, Progressive daughter Florence Kelley led lives packed with drama, intimately tied to their nation’s politics. Through their friendships and feuds, campaigns and crusades, Will and Florie trace the narrative of a democracy in crisis. In telling the tale of what it cost to cool our republic, historian Jon Grinspan reveals our divisive political system’s enduring capacity to reinvent itself.
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It’s not every day — it’s not every year — that a book appears that upends all the guiding historical views of the age. Then again, Jon Grinspan’s The Age of Acrimony is that rare disturbance in the waters of the historiography of 19th-century America. It is an engaging, inviting, and ultimately disruptive story of what happened between the assassination of Lincoln and the sinking of the Lusitania.
The portrait of a time—not so unlike our own—when partisan discord dominated American life … In the manner of David McCullough, [Grinspan] captures many of his themes in the story of a single figure whose career … ranged across a broad spectrum of not just political but also cultural issues … [Today] both parties behave like enemies in a cultural civil war, fighting it out on social media rather than torchlight parades. Where will it all end? To judge by Mr. Grinspan’s account, only when old causes and divisions are replaced by those of new generations—after another decade or two of acrimony.
For those that love the messy politics of the Gilded Age or the complicated history of industrial capitalism, this book will prove fascinating … Grinspan’s history is wonderfully nuanced and balanced ... will give you hope that today’s problems are not as apocalyptic as they sometimes feel. After all, the nation survived.
A welcome addition to the vast body of historical interpretations of what the Gilded Age meant for the erratic quest to fulfill the American nation’s democratic promise…Grinspan excels at teasing out the deeply rooted (and long-enduring) backstories that propelled the landmark confrontations of Gilded Age politics.
Brisk, edifying . . . Grinspan enlists a large cast of tenacious optimists and mercurial opportunists. Together, their biographies illuminate a half-century of strife and grudging reform . . . Grinspan has skillfully assembled a roster of memorable personalities who embody some of the era's vicissitudes. The people in these pages didn't ‘fix’ the republic's problems, of course…Frequently, though, they prodded America to fulfill its founding promises, stepping into starring roles in this admirable portrait of a nation enduring a prolonged identity crisis.
Not all historians write with the verve and dash of Grinspan. [His] history of the era does not despair for democracy…Grinspan contends that 20th-century democracy has grown more reasonable, more enlightened, and more transparent.
Think the present-day politics of hate and fear are bad? It’s all child’s play compared to the half-century following the Civil War . . . In a highly readable narrative, Grinspan also forges some unexpected connections . . . If today’s political divisions are frightening, Grinspan’s lucid history soothes by recounting when it was far worse.
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