CSPAN2 Book TV November 2, 2014
Era in the United States from the 19th century the United States has a spoiled system or patronage system in which every office of the federal government all the way down to the local postmaster was allocated on the basis of political patronage dividend to somebody as a reward for Political Support by a member of congress or representative or whatnot. This system was ended beginning in the et nates as the result of a Grassroots Movement where that grandmothers would get access to that they are a fourth class postmaster. It was the assassination of James Garfield in 1882 at the hands of a would...