Chester Alan Arthur: The Life of a Gilded Age Politician and PresidentNova Publishers, 2007 - 192 стор. Arthur's greatest success was in cutting the surplus, although it was a modest reduction, maintaining the protectionist tariff system, achieving civil service reform, and rebuilding the navy. Like every president he did disappoint and he carefully crafted his politics to achieve his ends. The years of Arthur's administration were ones of great changes. Industrial growth and consolidation led to massive economic changes. Companies were no longer local entities, but now competed in the international marketplace. Single companies took over entire industries. John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and John P. Morgan ushered in the era of the trust. In North Carolina, James Duke began mass producing cigarettes, the first significant step on the way to a national economy based on consumption. |
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... failed to excite public imagination and drove no great political movements , but it is hard to see where they were seriously asked to for this was the age of booming and industrial 2 1 " Overrated and Underrated Americans , " American ...
... failed to excite public imagination and drove no great political movements , but it is hard to see where they were seriously asked to for this was the age of booming and industrial 2 1 " Overrated and Underrated Americans , " American ...
Сторінка xvi
... failure in the eyes of the public was his inability to get convictions for the star route fraud conspirators . 4 Andrew D. White , Autobiography of Andrew Dickinson White , vol . 1 ( New York : Century Co. , 1905 ) , p 203 . Yet the ...
... failure in the eyes of the public was his inability to get convictions for the star route fraud conspirators . 4 Andrew D. White , Autobiography of Andrew Dickinson White , vol . 1 ( New York : Century Co. , 1905 ) , p 203 . Yet the ...
Сторінка xix
... failed to comprehend the changes in the economy because they did not construct the welfare state . Yet , in the late 1980s the historians of the new institutional school showed that not to entirely be the case . While less dramatic than ...
... failed to comprehend the changes in the economy because they did not construct the welfare state . Yet , in the late 1980s the historians of the new institutional school showed that not to entirely be the case . While less dramatic than ...
Сторінка xx
... failure as a party leader . He was placed in a difficult situation by the seeming partisan nature of 12 Ibid . , p . , 422 . 13 Justus Doenecke , The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur , ( Lawrence : University ...
... failure as a party leader . He was placed in a difficult situation by the seeming partisan nature of 12 Ibid . , p . , 422 . 13 Justus Doenecke , The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur , ( Lawrence : University ...
Сторінка xxi
... failure of the government to gain convictions in the Star Route fraud cases further hurt Arthur's approval , especially since his own cabinet officers worked in the interests of the defense . His foreign policy was largely focused on ...
... failure of the government to gain convictions in the Star Route fraud cases further hurt Arthur's approval , especially since his own cabinet officers worked in the interests of the defense . His foreign policy was largely focused on ...
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Collector | 19 |
1880 | 39 |
Vice President Arthur | 57 |
President Arthur | 75 |
Party Leader | 97 |
Domestic Policy | 121 |
Foreign Policy | 151 |
Selected Bibliography | 173 |
Index | 181 |
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Сторінка 68 - It becomes our painful duty to inform you of the death of President Garfield and to advise you to take the oath of office as President of the United States without delay.
Сторінка xi - Today the White House Office has become "the political as well as policy arm of the chief executive." The larger, all encompassing Executive Office of the President has expanded through time to include a myriad number of departments in addition to the first five listed above and the president is advised by nearly 60 active boards, committees and commissions. During and immediately after World War II the following additional departments within the purview of the EOP were organized: Committee for Congested...
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Сторінка 28 - ... principles prior to the election, gave a prominent place to the subject of reform of our civil service, recognizing and strongly urging its necessity, in terms almost identical in their specific import with those I have here employed, must be accepted as a conclusive argument in behalf of these measures.
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