Outlawing the Spoils: a History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883

Review\n"Fastidiously researched and interestingly written history....By demonstrating that the reformers had more complicated motives than historical sentimentality has hitherto credited them with, Hoogenboom imparts to the civil service reform story some long needed correctives."-Saturday Review\n?Fastidiously researched and interestingly written history....By demonstrating that the reformers had more complicated motives than historical sentimentality has hitherto credited them with, Hoogenboom imparts to the civil service reform story some long needed correctives.?-Saturday Review