" It
needed a half-century of experience to convince the American people of
this fallacy and to place the national Civil Service beyond the reach
of spoilsmen. Even now public opinion is slow to realize that
efficiency in office can be secured only by experience and relative
permanence.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The events of the period covered in this volume are described with
some fullness in all of the general American histories. Of these, two
are especially noteworthy for literary quality and other elements of
popular interest: Woodrow Wilson's _History of the American People_, 5
vols. (1902), and John B. McMaster's _History of the People of the
United States_, 8 vols. (1883-1913). The Jacksonian epoch is treated
in Wilson's fourth volume and in McMaster's fifth and sixth volumes.
On similar lines, but with more emphasis on political and
constitutional matters, is James Schouler's _History of the United
States under the Constitution_, 7 vols. (1880-1913), vols. III-IV. One
seeking a scholarly view of the period, in an adequate literary
setting, can hardly do better, however, than to read Frederick J.
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