Robert Mitchell

The Credit Mobilier scandal rocked Washington in 1873. It ruined reputations, contributed to a massive Republican defeat in the 1874 congressional elections, and colored the Mark Twain-Charles Dudley ...

The Partisans recounts the two-decade feud between two of the most significant politicians of the post-Civil War era. It began in 1866, when an exasperated Blaine mocked Conkling’s “grandiloquent ...