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Money, Morals, and Politics

其他書名	Massachusetts in the Age of the Boston Associates
出版	Northeastern University Press, 2001
主題	History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralPolitical Science / American Government / StateSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN	15555348999781555534899
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lr-HAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A group of wealthy families bound together by marriage and financial interests, the Boston Associates controlled extensive sectors of the antebellum Massachusetts economy. As leading figures in the Whig party, they also dominated politics in the Commonwealth. While the Associates remained a powerful force in Bay State economic life through most of the nineteenth century, their political authority had been sharply curtailed by the time of the Civil War. In this Insightful volume, William F. Hartford breaks new ground by asking how the Associates and their Federalist forebears maintained their dominance for as long as they did. He argues that the reasons for the elite group's early successes in establishing political leadership provide the key to understanding the demise of Massachusetts Whiggery. Hartford explains how the Associates secured and preserved power by crafting a compelling political appeal that garnered the support of broad segments of the electorate. The Ideological framework of that appeal rested on two overarching principles: a strong defense of regional economic interests forged by linking merchant and manufacturer fortunes to those of regional farmers, mechanics, an