Age of Acrimony

Description:

The forces influencing American democracy and politics from 1865 to 1920, organized around the professional biographies of William “Pig Iron” Kelley, Congressional rep from Philadelphia, and his daughter, the reformer Florence Kelly.

subjects: United States,  suffrage,  democracy,  politics,  the party system,  populism,  elitism,  reform,  political campaigning,  elections,  machine politics

People: James G. Blaine,  Roscoe Conkling,  Ignatius Donnelly,  Frederick Douglass,  Rutherford B. Hayes,  Florence Kelley,  William Kelley,  Theodore Roosevelt Jr.,  William Allen White

Places: Philadelphia,  Washington,  D. C.,  New York

Times: 1850s-1920s,  the Gilded Age,  the Populist Uprising,  the Progressive Age