By Donald Ratcliffe
Bringing to undergo over 35 years of study, Ratcliffe describes how unswerving Democratic Republicans attempted to regulate the election yet failed, as 5 in their occasion colleagues persevered in competing, in novel methods, until eventually the competition needed to be determined in the home of Representatives. at the beginning a fight among personalities, the election developed right into a struggle to regulate destiny coverage, with huge results for destiny presidential politics. The One-Party Presidential Contest bargains a nuanced account of the complaints, person who balances the undisciplined clash of private targets with the problems, rules, and prejudices that swirled round the election. during this e-book we essentially see, possibly for the 1st time, how the election of 1824 published fracture traces in the younger republic—and created others that might eternally switch the process American politics.
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