The Age of Acrimony Quotes

“The palatable story of an abstract realignment was really a battle over voting rights, fought out with secret ballots, polling booth curtains, and literacy tests.”
― Jon Grinspan, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

“The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.”
― Jon Grinspan, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

“The American people themselves “are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.”
― Jon Grinspan, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

“art of taking money from the few and the votes from the many under pretext of protecting one from the other.” After”
― Jon Grinspan, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915