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Mark Wahlgren Summers is a historian in the United States. He is a professor at the University of Kentucky. He has written books about political cartoons, and the election of U.S. president Grover Cleveland after a series of Republican officeholders,[1][2] and the role of fear in American politics after the Civil War.[3]

His father Clyde Summers was a law professor at Yale University.[4]

He has appeared on C-Span programs.[5][6]

In 1992 he was interviewed by Andrea Webb.[7]

Writings

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  • A Student Cartoonist's View of Great Figures in American History (1972)
  • The Presidency in Political Cartoons, 1776-1976 (1976)
  • Railroads, Reconstruction and the Gospel of Prosperity (1984)
  • The Plundering Generation: Corruption and the Crisis of the Union, 1848-1861 (1987)
  • The Era of Good Stealings (1992)
  • The Press Gang (1994)
  • The Gilded Age (1997)
  • Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000)
  • A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (2009)

Articles

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  • "The Chimera of Whig Persistence: Louisiana and the Election of 1865" (1983)
  • "A Band of Brigands: The 'Gridiron' Legislature and the Nomination of Lincoln" (1984)
  • "The Press Gang" (1990)

References

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  1. ^ "Rum, Romanism, Rebellion: The Making of a President 1884. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 377. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper".
  2. ^ Calhoun, Charles W. (December 1, 2000). "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 30 (4): 810 – via go.gale.com.
  3. ^ Emberton, Carole; Summers, Mark Wahlgren (2011). "Reviewed work: A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction, SummersMark Wahlgren". Journal of the Civil War Era. 1 (1): 124–126. doi:10.1353/cwe.2011.0002. JSTOR 26070103.
  4. ^ "Kentucky presidential historian talks about Friday's transfer of power". 19 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Mark Wahlgren Summers | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  6. ^ "[A Dangerous Stir] | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  7. ^ "Interview with Mark W. Summers, March 3, 1992".