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| Preface | |
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| 1789--Starting Off: George Washington | |
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| 1792--Washington Again | |
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| 1796--Federalist Succession: John Adams | |
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| 1800--Republican Takeover: Jefferson's Revolution | |
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| 1804--Jefferson's Landslide | |
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| 1808--Madison and the Dambargo | |
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| 1812--Madison's Wartime Re-election | |
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| 1816--Monroe: Another Virginia Victory | |
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| 1820--Monroe's Quiet Re-election | |
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| 1824--John Quincy Adams and the "Corrupt Bargain" | |
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| 1828--Jackson vs. Adams | |
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| 1832--Jackson, Clay, and the Bank War | |
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| 1836--Van Buren's Victory Over Three Whigs | |
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| 1840--Tippecanoe and Tyler Too | |
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| 1844--Polk and Manifest Destiny | |
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| 1848--Old Zach and the Michigander | |
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| 1852--Frank Pierce and Old Fuss and Feathers | |
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| 1856--Buchanan and Bleeding Kansas | |
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| 1860--Lincoln and the Sectional Crisis | |
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| 1864--Lincoln and the War Crisis | |
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| 1868--Grant and Reconstruction | |
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| 1872--Grant and the Liberal Republicans | |
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| 1876--The Hayes-Tilden Disputed Election | |
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| 1880--The Triumph of "Boatman Jim" Garfield | |
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| 1884--The Cleveland-Blaine Contest | |
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| 1888--Harrison, Cleveland, and the Tariff | |
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| 1892--Cleveland's Return to Power | |
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| 1896--McKinley, Bryan, and Free Silver | |
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| 1900--The McKinley-Roosevelt Triumph | |
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| 1904--T.R.'s Smashing Victory | |
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| 1908--Taft's Big Victory Over Bryan | |
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| 1912--The High Tide of Progressivism: Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft | |
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| 1916--Wilson and the Great War | |
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| 1920--Harding, Nostrums, and Normalcy | |
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| 1924--Keeping Cool with Coolidge | |
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| 1928--Hoover, Smith, and the Catholic Issue | |
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| 1932--Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Great Depression | |
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| 1936--Roosevelt and the New Deal | |
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| 1940--Roosevelt, Willkie, and the War in Europe | |
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| 1944--Roosevelt's Wartime Mandate | |
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| 1948--The Great Truman Surprise | |
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| 1952--The Eisenhower Landslide | |
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| 1956--Another Eisenhower Landslide | |
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| 1960--Kennedy and the New Frontier | |
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| 1964--Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society | |
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| 1968--Nixon, Humphrey, and the Vietnam War | |
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| 1972--Another Nixon Triumph | |
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| 1976--The Triumph of an Outsider: Jimmy Carter | |
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| 1980--The Reagan Victory | |
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| 1984--Another Reagan Sweep | |
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| 1988--Trivial Pursuit: Bush vs. Dukakis | |
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| 1992--Clinton and the Call for Change | |
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| 1996--Bill Clinton and the Vital Center | |
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| 2000--Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court | |
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| Postscript--Presidential Campaigns through the Years | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |