Voter turnout declined from 80% in the election of 1896 to 49% in the election of 1924.
Michael Waldman, The Fight to Vote (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), 94.
Michael Waldman, The Fight to Vote (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), 94.
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Thomas Jefferson directed the University of Virginia to require all law students to read President George Washington’s Farewell Address.
John Avlon, Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017), 6-7. When Democrat Huey Long planned a third party run for president in 1936 against Democratic incumbent President Franklin Roosevelt, he knew he was unlikely to win, but he was hoping to undermine Roosevelt’s ability to win reelection so that the Republican candidate would win, do a poor job of managing the economy, and thereby make it easier for Long to win the presidency as the Democratic Party’s candidate in 1940.
Richard D. White, Jr., Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long (New York: Random House, 2006), 242. Of the approximately $20 billion the U.S.’s Coalition Provisional Authority had sent to Iraq starting in 2003, at least $11.7 billion went missing.
James Risen, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014), 19. 464 men were killed or injured working in Colorado mines in 1913.
David Traxel, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898 – 1920 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 105. |
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