Editing Spoils system (section)

== Sources ==
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* {{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Thomas Andrew  |date=1981 |author-link=Thomas Andrew Bailey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GZ5IpwgQ0jMC&pg=PA47 |title=Presidential Saints and Sinners |publisher=VNR AG |isbn=978-0-02-901330-4}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Friedrich |first=Carl Joachim |date=1937 |author-link=Carl Joachim Friedrich |title=The Rise and Decline of the Spoils Tradition |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271623718900103 |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |language=en |volume=189 |issue=1 |pages=10–16 |doi=10.1177/000271623718900103 |s2cid=144735397 |issn=0002-7162}}
* {{cite book |last=Gates |first=Paul W. |author-link=Paul Wallace Gates |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001326536 |title=History of Public Land Law Development, Written for the U.S. States Public Land Law Review Commission  |location=Washington, D.C. |lccn=68062999 |date=November 1968 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |others=One chapter written by Robert W. Swenson |oclc=453829 }}
* {{cite book|author= Timothy Gilfoyle|author-link= Timothy Gilfoyle|title=A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York|url= https://archive.org/details/pickpocketstaleu00gilf|url-access= registration|publisher=W. W. Norton Company|date=2006|isbn=978-0393329896}}
* Griffith, Ernest S. ''The Modern Development of the City in the United Kingdom and the United States'' (1927)
* [[Hoogenboom, Ari Arthur]]. ''Outlawing the Spoils: A history of the civil service reform movement, 1865–1883'' (1961)
* {{cite book | title = Chester Alan Arthur | last = Karabell | first = Zachary | author-link = Zachary Karabell | year = 2004 | publisher = Henry Holt & Co | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-8050-6951-8 | ref = {{sfnRef|Karabell}} | url = https://archive.org/details/chesteralanarthu00kara }}
* [[Moisey Ostrogorsky|Ostrogorski, M.]] ''Democracy and the Party System in the United States'' (1910)
* {{cite book |last=Parton |first=James |title=The beginning of the "spoils" system in the national government, 1829–30 |location=New York |others=Civil Service Reform Association |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |year=1881 |lccn=unk81009481 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Rohrbough |year=1971 |first=Malcolm J. |title=The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789–1837 |orig-year=1968 |edition=Paperback |series=Galaxy Book 354 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-501472-3 |oclc=176589 |lccn=68029725 |location=London}}
* Rubio, Philip F. (2001). ''A History of Affirmative Action, 1619–2000''. University Press of Mississippi
* {{Cite book |last=United States Civil Service Commission Office of Public Affairs |date=1974 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTZlhTGsycC&pg=PA16 |title=Biography of an Ideal: A History of the Federal Civil Service |publisher=The Commission}}
* Van Riper, Paul. ''History of the United States Civil Service'' Greenwood Press (1976; reprint of 1958 edition)
* {{cite book |last=White |first=Richard |author-link=Richard White (historian)|title=The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age: 1865–1896|date=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780190619060 }}
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