America at the Ballot Box : Elections and Political History.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Devolution of 1800: Jefferson's Election and the Birth of American Government -- 2. The Bombshell of 1844 -- 3. Beyond the Realignment Synthesis: The 1860 Election Reconsidered -- 4. Markets, Morality, and the Media: The Election of 1884 and the Iconography of Progressivism -- 5. Anglophobia in Nineteenth-Century Elections, Politics, and Diplomacy -- 6. The War and Peace Election of 1916 -- 7. Farewell to the "Smoke-Filled Room": Parties, Interests, Public Relations, and the Election of 1924 -- 8. The New Deal in 1940: Embattled or Entrenched? -- 9. "Why Don't You Just Get an Actor?": The Advent of Television in the 1952 Campaign -- 10. Giving Liberalism a Window: The 1964 Election -- 11. The 1980 Election: Victory Without Success -- 12. Beyond the Water's Edge: Foreign Policy and Electoral Politics -- 13. From Corn to Caviar: The Evolution of Presidential Election Communications, 1960-2000 -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

A chronological collection of essays, America at the Ballot Box uses the history of presidential elections to illuminate both the fundamental character of American political democracy, and its evolution from the early Republic to the late twentieth century.

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