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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
A Magnificent Catastrophe The Tumultuous Election of 1800 America's First Presidential Campaign
Author: Edward J. Larson
"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 Ameri...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743293167
ISBN-10: 0743293169
Publication Date: 9/18/2007
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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It's interesting to those people who study this era, but the author tried to put drama into something that is usually viewed as a foregone conclusion. Much as today, just because some hot-headed "journalist" of the day said something doesn't make it a mass movement.


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