Robert Mitchell

The Partisans tells the story of the bitter feud that dominated American politics after the Civil War. Blaine and Conkling fought on Capitol Hill, at political conventions, and in the behind-the-scene...

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 ...