Curbing Campaign Cash: Henry Ford, Truman Newberry, and the Politics of Progressive Reform
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700618635 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Paula Baker is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University, author of The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender and Politics in Rural New York, 1870 1930, and editor of Campaign Finance in Historical Perspective.
--Donald A. Scandals over money in politics are nothing new. --Lewis L. Gould, author of Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics. Ritchie, author of Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932A fascinating account of one of the more sensational Senate elections of the twentieth century and a crucial episode in the history of campaign finance. Curbing Campaign Cash provides keen historical insight into the earliest efforts to set limits on campaign financing, and how that affected one of the most controversial campaigns
This led to his conviction under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act but also to his eventual exoneration in the first campaign finance case to be decided by the U.S. Curbing Campaign Cash provides a compelling account of a key chapter in the history of this issue.. In the first book in eight decades on this initial test of federal campaign finance regulations, Paula Baker examines this case study of state and local campaign spending to describe how politicians found their footing in an environment created by progressive reform and invented modern campaigns. Senate, auto tycoon Henry Ford faced off against a less well-known industrialist, Truman Newberry. Supreme Court. She follows the controversy as it unfolded beginning with progressive reform of politics and the remaking of campaigns then takes readers through the shifting scenes, from Detroit to Washington, where the Ford-Newberry conflict played out.Baker reexamines the political divisions between conservatives and progressive reformers to reveal contradictions in how Progressive Era federal finance regulations worked, with efforts to weaken the power of political parties and democratize politics actually making campaigns more expensive. United States the Court ruled that Congress had no jurisdiction to regulate primary elections, a controversial decision that allowed southern states to create whites-only primaries and stalled campaign finance re
david l. poremba said excellent look at Progressive Era politics. Imagine for a moment that you are at your kitchen table in Detroit, Michigan. It is late in the year 1918 and you are about to write a letter of complaint to your United States Senator about unsafe working conditions at your job making Ford cars. Putting pencil to paper, you realize that your senator is Henry Ford and it hits you that writing is hopeless. Sound crazy? President Woodrow Wilson urged Ford to run for the seat and, making no public speeches or appearances, he very nearly won, the margin less than 9,000 votes. What kind of politician a