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Jon Grinspan’s The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 is a work of American political history that examines the turbulent decades after the Civil War and before the modern reform era fully took shape. Drawing on figures such as William Kelley and Florence Kelley, Grinspan shows how public life in this period was defined by fierce partisanship, electoral combat, corruption, repression, and violence, but also by reform efforts that tried to reshape democratic practice. Rather than treating late 19th-century politics as a simple prelude to progress, the book argues that the era itself was central to understanding how American democracy changed. Its purpose is both historical and interpretive: to correct nostalgic views of the past and to explain how the more restrained political culture of the 20th century emerged from a much louder and more confrontational one.