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Star Power: The Limits of Personality Politics in the Progressive Era

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Eric Rauchway
Eric Rauchway
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University of California, Davis
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 279 - 288
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2002

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