About this title: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Larsons new book presents a masterful and revelatory account of the titanic election battle that had been so momentous to the countrys future that Thomas Jefferson had called it Americas second revolution. 16 pages of b&w photographs.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743293167ISBN:0743293169
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. FINE. Clean, tight, square. Text pages & illustrations clear, bright and unmarked. No highlightings or underlinings. All items ships within 24 hours. Free USPS Delivery Confirmation and Tracking Number. Thanks for your purchase! Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 335 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Audiobook CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN-13:9780743569040ISBN:0743569040
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Binding: Audiobook CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN-13:9780743569040ISBN:0743569040
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Binding: Audiobook CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN-13:9780743569040ISBN:0743569040
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Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Free Press, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743293167ISBN:0743293169
Description: Near Fine Hardback. Near Fine Dustjacket. Remainder Mark Top Edge. 6 x 9" A solid copy; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------ read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743293167ISBN:0743293169
Description: Very Good in Very Good- jacket. 0743293169 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall The dust jacket has light edge wear and is lightly rubbed and the dust jacket is in a Mylar type protector. There is a patch of white on the upper right corner of the dust jacket where a sticker was removed. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Board
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743293167ISBN:0743293169
Description: Near Fine+ in Near Fine+ jacket. The condition of this American History hard back is Near Fine+ with a Near Fine+ jacket, 1st edition & 1st printing. No black remainder marks. This book is in wonderful condition with a very clean cover and tight and unmarked pages. No names. This jacket, with price, is also very bright and clean with very nice edges. 333 pages. read more
"The presidential election of 1800 is one of those events that is placed on a pedestal. It is considered as the first time in modern history that two parties exchanged power peacefully. This is an excellent retelling of that event.
I really enjoyed that the focus was kept narrow. While, everything impacts and has a reaction, it is sometimes helpful to have the story distilled down to the basics of what happened. Why did this happen in this, rather than this and this were going on and it made this happen which led to this impact on Adams campaign."
In graduate school I had to read Larson's Pulitzer winner, Summer for the Gods, about the Scopes Trial. This short history of the Election of 1800, the first "modern" election in the sense of campaigning and party politics, is a perfect continuation of a lifetime of solid, entertaining history. Larson has a pleasant knack for writing compelling, understandable history, with analysis that is hidden enough to not frighten laymen, but insightful enough to not make his work a simple regurgitation of events. I approve of this kind of history: thoughtful, but not necessarily taxing to non-historians.
Of course, Larson has fantastic subject matter. Hamilton, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Burr and the Pickneys, as well as side actors like Madison, Monroe and Abigail Adams are all important players in not only American Presidential history, but in American personality history. All were persons of letters, strong opinions, and, in Adams' case, epic bouts of rage. Fiction could not assemble a better cast."
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