The Birth of Modern Politics; Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
ISBN: 9780199754243 | 0199754241
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/19/2011
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The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwestern frontiersman, trumpeted by his supporters as a genuine man of the people, soundly defeated a New England "aristocrat" whose education and political résumé were as impressive as any ever seen in American public life. It was, many historians have argued, the country's first truly democratic presid... MORE
| Editor's Note | p. ix |
| Prologue: ôThe most rude and ruthless election that ever took place …,ö | p. xi |
| ôMr. Adams … will be an able helpmate …,ö | p. 1 |
| ôIt is impossible for me to contemplate (General Jackson's) character without veneration,ö | p. 39 |
| ôA radical reform in the political feelings of this place is needed,ö | p. 69 |
| ôThe re-election of Mr. Adams is out of the question,ö | p. 109 | ... MORE
| ôI never war against females,ö | p. 133 |
| ôSwimming rivers and risking their lives to get to the polls,ö | p. 159 |
| Epilogue: ôNothing, but much mischief,ö | p. 189 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 199 |
| Notes | p. 201 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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Lynn Hudson Parsons is Professor of History Emeritus at the State University of New York College at Brockport. He is the author of John Quincy Adams and coeditor, with Kenneth Paul O'Brien, of The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society.
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