America at the Ballot Box: Elections and Political History

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2015

America at the Ballot Box

Elections and Political History

Edited by: Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer

In the series Politics and Culture in Modern America

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291360

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Gareth Davies is University Lecturer in American History at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. He is the author of See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan. Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress and the Battle for the Great Society.

Reviews

"An exciting collection of new research from major scholars that makes it clear why the historical study of presidential elections should be of interest to all of us."—David Greenberg, Rutgers University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Devolution of 1800: Jefferson’s Election and the Birth of American Government Jeffrey L. Pasley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. The Bombshell of 1844 Sean Wilentz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. Beyond the Realignment Synthesis: Th e 1860 Election Reconsidered Adam I. P. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Markets, Morality, and the Media: The Election of 1884 and the Iconography of Progressivism Richard R. John Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5. Anglophobia in Nineteenth- Century Elections, Politics, and Diplomacy Jay Sexton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
6. The War and Peace Election of 1916 Elizabeth Sanders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
7. Farewell to the “Smoke- Filled Room”: Parties, Interests, Public Relations, and the Election of 1924 Bruce J. Schulman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8. The New Deal in 1940: Embattled or Entrenched? Gareth Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9. “Why Don’t You Just Get an Actor?”: Th e Advent of Television in the 1952 Campaign Kevin M. Kruse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
10. Giving Liberalism a Window: Th e 1964 Election Julian E. Zelizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
11. The 1980 Election: Victory Without Success Meg Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
12. Beyond the Water’s Edge: Foreign Policy and Electoral Politics Andrew Preston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
13. From Corn to Caviar: Th e Evolution of Presidential Election Communications, 1960–2000 Brian Balogh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 5 illus.
Keywords: American History; Political Science; American Studies; Political Science; Public Policy

eBook

Published: July 29, 2015
ISBN: 9780812291360