Chapter 1: The politics of the Constitution, 1787–89
Lee on ratification, Herbert J. Storing, The Complete Anti-Federalist, Volume 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 142.
Chapter 2: Contentious people and factious parties in the Early Republic, 1789–1824
Hamilton on political factions, Harold Coffin Syrett, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 19 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973), 43.
Chapter 3: The age of Democracy, 1816–44
Jackson at a Democratic Party dinner, Donald B. Coles, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993), 62.
Chapter 4: The politics of slavery: prelude to the Civil War, 1844–60
Republican quotation, William E. Gienapp, Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 375.
Chapter 5: Politics in war and Reconstruction, 1861–76
Sumner quotation, Mark E. Neeley Jr., The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 161.
Chapter 6: Gilded Age frustration and the Progressive response, 1877–1918
Hanna on William Jennings Bryan, H. Wayne Morgan, William McKinley and His America (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, reprint, 2004), 181.
Chapter 7: Affluence, depression, and world war, 1920–45
Politicians mock Coolidge’s rise to power, Robert H. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993), 40.
Chapter 8: Early Cold War politics, 1945–74
King speech in Washington in August 1963, Ed Clayton, Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 118.