Research Catalog

Presidential campaigns

Title: Presidential campaigns / Paul F. Boller, Jr.
Author: Boller, Paul F.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 1984

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Use in library	E176.1 .B683 1984	Off-site

Details

Description

xii, 420 pages; 25 cm

Summary

The author takes note of the serious side of elections, even as he documents the frenzy and frolic.

Subject

Genre/Form

Anecdotes
History
Anecdotes.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1789 - Starting off: George Washington -- 1792 - Washington again -- 1796 - Federalist succession: John Adams -- 1800 - Republican takeover: Jefferson's revolution -- 1804 - Jefferson's landslide -- 1808 - Madison and the Dambargo -- 1812 - Madison's wartime re-election -- 1816 - Monroe: Another Virginia victory -- 1820 - Monroe's quiet re-election -- 1824 - John Quincy Adams and the "corrupt bargain" -- 1828 - Jackson vs. Adams -- 1832 - Jackson, Clay, and the Bank War -- 1836 - Van Buren's victory over three Whigs -- 1840 - Tippecanoe and Tyler too -- 1844 - Polk and Manifest Destiny -- 1848 - Old Zach and the Michigander -- 1852 - Frank Pierce and Old Fuss and Feathers -- 1856 - Buchanan and Bleeding Kansas -- 1860 - Lincoln and the sectional crisis -- 1864 - Lincoln and the war crisis -- 1868 - Grant and reconstruction -- 1872 - Grand the liberal Republicans -- 1876 - The Hayes-Tilden disputed election -- 1880 - The triumph of "Boatman Jim" Garfield -- 1884 - The Cleveland-Blaine contest -- 1888 - Harrison, Cleveland, and the tariff -- 1892 - Cleveland's return to power -- 1896 - McKinley, Bryan, and free silver -- 1900 - The McKinley-Roosevelt triumph -- 1904 - T.R.'s smashing victory -- 1908 - Taft's big victory over Bryan -- 1912 - The high tide of progressivism: Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft -- 1916 - Wilson and the Great War -- 1920 - Harding, Nostrums, and normalcy -- 1924 - keeping cool with Coolidge -- 1928 - Hoover, Smith, and the Catholic issue -- 1932 - Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Great Depression -- 1936 - Roosevelt and the New Deal -- 1940 - Roosevelt, Wilkie, and the war in Europe -- 1944 - Roosevelt's wartime mandate -- 1948 - The great Truman surprise -- 1952 - The Eisenhower landslide -- 1956 - Another Eisenhower landslide -- 1960 - Kennedy and the New Frontier -- 1964 - Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society -- 1968 - Nixon, Humphrey, and the Vietnam War -- 1972 - Another Nixon triumph -- 1976 - The triumph of an outsider: Jimmy Carter -- 1980 - The Reagan victory.

ISBN

0195034201
9780195034202
0195037227
9780195037227

LCCN

83025047

OCLC

ocm10207716
10207716
SCSB-616959

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library