Research Catalog

Title

The presidency : a pictorial history of presidential elections from Washington to Truman.

Author

Lorant, Stefan, 1901-1997.

Publication

• New York : Macmillan, 1952.
• ©1951

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Details

Description

775 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 25 cm

Summary

Here's a superb record of every presidential election in the United States, from the days of George Washington to the struggle between Dewey and Truman. Over 1,000 fascinating pictures vividly illustrate this story of election drama--heroism, scandal, rugged conflict, and stirring ballyhoo. The pictures and text give abundant proof that politics brings out some of our most picturesque--and most American--behavior! Story by story, and picture by picture. author Lorant builds up his striking portrait of an important side of American democracy--our free elections. The forty-two chapters, one for each presidential election and an introductory one on the Creation of Office, make up a lively political history of the United States. With swift, sure strokes Lorant draws in the background of each campaign, portrays the characters of the opposing candidates, and describes the battles that took place. He gives the statistics: always the Electoral vote, and after 1828 the popular vote as well. Thus the reader can quickly see how each state voted for each candidate, the majority by which each election was won, and which Presidents won the popular vote but lost the Electoral vote. The contemporary illustrations do the rest--portraits, engravings, old prints, broadsides, pages of newspapers, facsimiles of letters, hundreds of pungent cartoons, and the best photographs of all the modern campaigns. Lively glimpses of the candidates in action, the rise and fall of parties, vivid bits of historical by-play, election-night scenes, nominating conventions, inaugurations all are here. The portraits of each major candidate for the presidency and vice-presidency from 1789 to 1948 precede each chapter. Never before has the story of presidential elections been so graphically told. This book gives you history at a glance, and will prove as valuable to the historian as to the reader for pleasure.--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Elections > United States
• Presidents > United States
• Elections
• Politics and government
• Presidents
• Präsidentenwahl
• Verkiezingen
• Presidenten
• Elections > United States
• Presidents > United States
• United States > Politics and government
• United States
• USA
• United States > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 744-755.

Contents

The creation of the office -- The first election, 1789: George Washington -- The second election, 1792: George Washington -- The third election, 1796: John Adams -- The fourth election, 1800: Thomas Jefferson -- The fifth election, 1804: Thomas Jefferson -- The sixth election, 1808: James Madison -- The seventh election, 1812: James Madison -- The eighth election, 1818: James Monroe -- The ninth election, 1820: James Monroe -- the tenth election, 1824: John Quincy Adams -- The eleventh election, 1828: Andrew Jackson -- The twelfth election, 1832: Andrew Jackson -- The thirteenth election, 1836: Martin Van Buren -- the fourteenth election, 1840: William H. Harrison and John Tyler -- The fifteenth election, 1844: James K. Polk -- The sixteenth election, 1848: Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore -- The seventeenth election, 1851: Franklin Pierce -- The eighteenth election, 1859: James Buchanan -- The nineteenth election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln -- The twentieth election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson -- The twenty-first election, 1868: Ulysses S. Grant -- The twenty-second election, 1872: Ulysses S. Grant -- The twenty-third election, 1876: Rutherford E. Hayes -- The twenty-fourth election, 1880: James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur -- The twenty-eighth election, 1884: Grover Cleveland -- The twenty-sixth election, 1888: Benjamin Harrison -- The twenty-seventh election, 1894: Grover Cleveland -- The twenty-eighth election, 1896: William McKinley -- The twenty-ninth election, 1900: William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt -- The thirtieth election, 1904: Theodore Roosevelt -- The thirty-first election, 1908: William Howard Taft -- The thirty-second election, 1912: Woodrow Wilson -- The thirty-third election, 1916: Woodrow Wilson -- The thirty-fourth election, 1920: Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge -- The thirty-fifth election, 1924: Calvin Coolidge -- The thirty-sixth election, 1928: Herbert Hoover -- The thirty-seventh election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The thirty-eighth election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The thirty-ninth election, 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The fortieth election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman -- The forty-first election, 1948: Harry S. Truman.

LCCN

51012817

OCLC

• ocm00231943
• 231943
• SCSB-113452

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library