Magnificent Catastrophe The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign

Name: Magnificent Catastrophe The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Price: 5.96 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780743293174

ISBN-10: 0743293177

ISBN-13: 9780743293174

Edition: 2007

Authors: Edward J. Larson

List price: $21.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $5.96

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election -- an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second revolution." This was America's first true presidential campaign, giving birth to our two-party system and indelibly etching the lines of partisanship that have so profoundly shaped American politics ever since. The contest featured two of our most beloved Founding Fathers, once warm friends, facing off as the heads of their two still-forming parties -- the hot-tempered but…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 6/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Independence Day, July 4, 1776



From Friends to Rivals



Crossing the Bar



"Electioneering Has Already Begun"



Burr v. Hamilton



Caucuses and Calumny



A New Kind of Campaign



For God and Party



Insurrection



Thunderstruck



The Tie


Epilogue: Inauguration Day, March 4, 1801


Notes


Index