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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | E183 .R69 1957 | Off-site |
Details
- 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
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library