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Graff, Henry F. Grover Cleveland. NY: Times Books, 2002.

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James, Scott C. Presidents, parties, and the State: A Party System Perspective on Democratic Regulatory Choice, 1884-1936. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Jeffers, H. Paul. An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland. NY: William Morrow, 2000.

Kehl, James A. Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt Quay of Pennsylvania . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.

Lause, Mark A. The Civil War’s Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party and the Politics of Race and Section. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.

Lynch, Denis T. “Boss” Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation. NY: Boni and Liveright, 1927.

McCaffery, Peter. When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia: The Emergence of the Republican Machine, 1867-1933. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1993.

McCormick, Richard L. From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893-1910. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.

McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

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Phillips, Kevin. William McKinley. NY: Henry Holt, 2003.

Polakoff, Keith I. The Politics of Inertia: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.

Perry, James M. Touched by Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles that Made Them. NY: Public Affairs/Perseus Group, 2003.

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Reeves, Thomas C. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur. NY: Knopf, 1975.

Ryan, Mary P. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Schmidt, Jean Miller. Souls or the Social Order: The Two-Party System in American Protestantism. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1991.

Schneirov, Richard. Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-1897. Urbana: University Of Illinois Press, 1998.

Simpson, Brooks D. The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Socolofsky, Homer Edward, and Allan B. Spetter. The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987.

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Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

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Zink, Harold. City Bosses in the United States: A Study of Twenty Municipal Bosses. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1930.