The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded Age

The Partisans tells the story of the feud that dominated American politics in the decades that followed the Civil War. It is the first detailed account of the battle between Republicans James G. Blaine and Roscoe Conkling. Blaine and Conkling fought for dominance on Capitol Hill and smoke-filled political convention halls. Their feud stoked the madness that led to the assassination of President James A. Garfield. When Blaine finally won the party's presidential nomination in 1884, hostility...