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A history of presidential elections

Title: A history of presidential elections / Eugene H. Roseboom.
Author: Roseboom, Eugene H. (Eugene Holloway), 1892-1984.
Publication: New York : Macmillan, ©1957.

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Description

568 pages; 22 cm

Summary

The author describes the political developments between elections, the conventions, campaigns and elections themselves, the leadership capabilities of each President, and the rise and decline of political parties.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliography.

Contents

Politics without parties -- The rich and the well born take charge -- Monocrats and Jacobins -- Agrarian liberalism in the saddle -- Mr. Madison's war and Mr. Monroe's era of good feelings -- The politics of sections in the 1820's -- The days of Andrew Jackson -- Whigs and Democrats, 1833-1843 -- Expansion and its consequences -- The Republican party is born -- The failure of parties -- The Civil War years -- The politics of vengeance -- The Grant era -- The great dispute and its aftermath -- In the doldrums : the eighties -- The tariff campaign -- The great agrarian failure -- The golden age of the grand old party -- The first Roosevelt -- The Progressive uprising -- The rule of Wilson -- The conservative reaction -- The Yankee politician and the great engineer -- The second Roosevelt -- The New Deal landslide -- That man again -- And again -- The great surprise -- I like Ike -- Ike again.

LCCN

57008105
BX57008105

OCLC

ocm00666023
666023
SCSB-113460

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Princeton University Library