Mark W. Summers
Mark Wahlgren Summers is an American historian who is a professor at the University of Kentucky. He has written books about political cartoons, and the election of U.S. president Grover Cleveland after a series of Republican officeholders, and the role of fear in American politics after the Civil War.
His father Clyde Summers was a law professor at Yale University.
He has appeared on C-Span programs.
In 1992 he was interviewed by Andrea Webb.
Writings
- A Student Cartoonist's View of Great Figures in American History
- The Presidency in Political Cartoons, 1776-1976
- Railroads, Reconstruction and the Gospel of Prosperity
- The Plundering Generation: Corruption and the Crisis of the Union, 1848-1861
- The Era of Good Stealings
- The Press Gang
- The Gilded Age
- Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884
- ''A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction''