Counterfeiting Labor's Voice: William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics

by Mark A. Lause

Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause's biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing trailblazer and master of dirty tricks, Carsey fit perfectly into a Democratic Party that based much of its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252045785
• ISBN13: 9780252045783
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages