E. L. Godkin

A Biography

By William M. Armstrong

Hardcover : 9780873953719, 287 pages, June 1978
Out of print (Hardcover)

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Table of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Irish Beginnings

2. War Correspondent with the Turks

3. Belfast to America

4. The Civil War Years

5. Founding the Nation

6. The Weekly "Day of Judgment"

7. "Annexation Fever" and Immigration Folly

8. The Liberal Republican Movement of 1872

9. Too Many Mules in the Pasture

10. Mugwumps for Cleveland

11. The Imperial Years

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Description

This is the only biography of Godkin published since 1907, when the Godkin family commissioned such a work. Numerous leaders of the Gilded Age are introduced and their relationships to Godkin are explored. Godkin's accuracy as a journalist through his Nation is completely evaluated.