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Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox - The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation (Hardcover)
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Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox - The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation (Hardcover)
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Usually remembered for its slogan 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too,' the
election of 1840 is also the first presidential election of which
it might be truly said, 'It's the Economy, Stupid.' Tackling a
contest best known for log cabins, cider barrels, and catchy songs,
this timely volume reveals that the election of 1840 might be
better understood as a case study of how profoundly the economy
shapes the presidential vote. Richard J. Ellis, a veteran scholar
of presidential politics, suggests that the election pitting the
Democratic incumbent Martin Van Buren against Whig William Henry
Harrison should also be remembered as the first presidential
election in which a major political party selected - rather than
merely anointed - its nominee at a national nominating convention.
In this analysis, the convention's selection, as well as Henry
Clay's post-convention words and deeds, emerge as crucial factors
in the shaping of the nineteenth-century partisan nation. Exploring
the puzzle of why the Whig Party's political titan Henry Clay lost
out to a relative political also-ran, Ellis teases out the role the
fluctuating economy and growing anti-slavery sentiment played in
the party's fateful decision to nominate the Harrison-Tyler ticket.
His work dismantles the caricature of the 1840 campaign (a.k.a. the
'carnival campaign') as all froth and no substance, instead giving
due seriousness to the deeply held moral commitments, as well as
anxieties about the political system, that informed the campaign.
In Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox, the campaign of 1840 can finally be
seen clearly for what it was: a contest of two profoundly different
visions of policy and governance, including fundamental,
still-pressing questions about the place of the presidency and
Congress in the US political system.
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