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The Politics of Corruption - The Election of 1824 and the Making of Presidents in Jacksonian America (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Corruption - The Election of 1824 and the Making of Presidents in Jacksonian America (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Corruption examines the U.S. presidential election
of 1824 as a critical contest in the nation's political history,
full of colorful characters and brimming with unexpected twists.
This election inaugurated the transition from the sedate, elitist
elections of the Jeffersonian era and propelled developments toward
the showier yet also more democratized presidential races that came
to characterize Jacksonian America. The Republican Party fielded
all five candidates in 1824, a veritable who's who of early
republic notables: treasury secretary William Crawford, secretary
of state John Quincy Adams, secretary of war John C. Calhoun,
speaker of the House Henry Clay, and War of 1812 hero Andrew
Jackson. This book recasts the 1824 election-conventionally
regarded as a dull, intraparty affair-as one of the most exciting
contests in American history. Using the correspondence and diaries
of the principals involved, Callahan chronicles the ways in which
the five candidates innovated political practices by creating
dynamic organizations, sponsoring energetic newspaper networks,
staging congressional legislative battles, and spreading vicious
personal attacks against each other. In the end, Calhoun's smear
campaign fatally undermined front-runner Crawford, while
self-styled political outsider Jackson successfully equated regular
politics with corruption yet still lost the contest to Washington's
ultimate insider, John Quincy Adams. It was a defeat Jackson would
not forget, animating him to fundamentally change the ways American
politics was conducted ever after.
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