Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS XI
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XIII
4. PREFACE XV
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XXI
6. CHRONOLOGY XXIII
7. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS XXV
8. 1 Political Change in Abbell's New Jersey 1
9. 2 Understanding Abbott's Political World 37
10. 3 Coming of Age in Antebellum Philadelphia 61
11. 4 The Political Apprenticeship 99
12. 5 The Elusive Quest for Governor 141
13. 6 The 1883 Gubernatorial Campaign 171
14. 7 The Battle of Railroad Taxation 197
15. 8 New Jersey's First Urban Governor 229
16. 9 The interregnum 257
17. 10 The Emergence of the modern Governor 287
18. 11 Abbett's Mixed Legacy 315
19. INDEX 337