THE GREAT REVOLUTION: HISTORY & RISE OF PEOPLES PARTY 1874 Chicago & Cook County

Description: THE GREAT REVOLUTION: HISTORY & RISE OF PEOPLES PARTY 1874 Chicago & Cook County POB#59202 TITLE: The great revolution; a history of the rise and progress of the People's Party in the city of Chicago and county of Cook with sketches of the elect in office. AUTHOR: M. L. Ahern PUBLISHER: Chicago: Lakeside Pub. and Print. Co. DATE: 1874DESCRIPTION: 265 pages 20 cm. Prominent gift inscription to Monastery Clara, presumably Chicago CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Solid page and cover attachment. Full caps and sharp corners, a small scuff to front cover fore edge. Prominent period gift inscription and at least one small mark in the text. Pages lightly toned, free of spotting (though some light foxing in preliminaries only). All pages free of creases or tears. BINDING: Green cloth tooled in gilt..Prominent gift inscription to Monastery Clara in Chicago, together with a number (264). The number possibly relates to a list of gift recipients arranged at the party office. .The People's Party of Illinois was a short-lived anti-temperance party, according to Wikipedia. "The party was founded by German Americans Boss Hesing and Hermann Raster of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, who temporarily split with the Republican Party due to its inaction with fighting anti-liquor laws. While the People's Party lasted only two years, it succeeded in electing Harvey Doolittle Colvin as Mayor of Chicago in 1873. ".The book consists of biographies of all the new mayor's major appointments along with their qualifications for office - a radical departure from the spoils system of hiring anonymous friends of a city boss. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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