America at the ballot box
Subtitle: elections and political history
By: edited by Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer
Series: Politics and culture in modern America; Politics and culture in modern America
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780812247190
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; History; Election; Elections
Other titles: Elections and political history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: The devolution of 1800 : Jefferson's election and the birth of American government  -- Jeffrey L. Pasley; title: The bombshell of 1844  -- Sean Wilentz; title: Beyond the realignment synthesis : the 1860 election reconsidered  -- Adam I. P. Smith; title: Markets, morality, and the media : the Election of 1884 and the iconography of Progressivism  -- Richard R. John; title: Anglophobia in nineteenth-century elections, politics, and diplomacy  -- Jay Sexton; title: The war and peace election of 1916  -- Elizabeth Sanders; title: Farewell to the "smoke-filled room" : parties, interests, public relations, and the election of 1924  -- Bruce J. Schulman; title: The New Deal in 1940 : embattled or entrenched?  -- Gareth Davies; title: "Why don't you just get an actor?" : the advent of television in the 1952 campaign  -- Kevin M. Kruse; title: Giving liberalism a window : the 1964 election  -- Julian E. Zelizer; title: The 1980 election : victory without success  -- Meg Jacobs; title: Beyond the water's edge : foreign policy and electoral politics  -- Andrew Preston; title: From corn to caviar : the evolution of presidential election communications, 1960-2000 -- Brian Balogh.