The first presidential contest
Subtitle: 1796 and the founding of American democracy
By: Jeffrey L. Pasley
Series: American presidential elections; American presidential elections
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780700619078
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Election; Democracy; History
Description: Argues that, despite its passivity and lack of active campaigning, the election of 1796 set the stage for all of American politics to follow.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The unintentional campaign; title: A new republic and its discontents; title: Popular politics in a postcolonial nation; title: The Jay Treaty Crisis and the origins of the 1796 campaign; title: From measures to "that man" : toward the presidential option for political change; title: The long goodbye : finding candidates in the shadow of Washington; title: The first culture war : themes and issues of the Federalist campaign against Thomas Jefferson; title: His Rotundity : themes and issues of the Democratic-Republican campaign against John Adams; title: Taking the Electoral College to school : how presidential electors helped create the national presidential election rather than preventing it; title: The party racers : voting for president in 1796; title: Kiss my ass and go to Hell.