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The first presidential contest : 1796 and the founding of American democracy
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Jeffrey L. Pasley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xi, 516 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780700623167, 0700623167, 9780700619078, 9780700623518
- OCLC
- ocn966803049
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-498) and index.
- Introduction : the unintentional campaign -- A new republic and its discontents -- Popular politics in a postcolonial nation -- The Jay Treaty crisis and the origins of the 1796 campaign -- From measures to "that man" : toward the presidential option for political change -- The long goodbye : finding candidates in the shadow of Washington -- The first culture war : themes and issues of the Federalist campaign against Thomas Jefferson -- His rotundity : themes and issues of the democratic-republican campaign against John Adams -- Taking the electoral college to school : how presidential electors helped create the national presidential election rather than preventing it -- The party racers : voting for president in 1796 -- Epilogue : kiss my ass and go to Hell