Presidential campaigns : from George Washington to George W. Bush
Record details
- ISBN: 6610840792
- ISBN: 9786610840793
- ISBN: 9781429420679
- ISBN: 1429420677
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 479 pages)
remote - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-466) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 the 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--Grant and 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 -- 1984--Another Reagan sweep -- 1988--Trivial pursuit: Bush vs. Dukakis -- 1992--Clinton and the call for change -- 1996--Bill Clinton and the vital center -- 2000--Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court -- Presidential campaigns through the years. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
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Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- History -- Anecdotes United States -- Politics and government -- Anecdotes |
Genre: | Electronic books. Anecdotes. History. Electronic books. |