03149nam 2200733Ia 450 991078282690332120230721021146.00-19-771681-40-19-983754-61-282-05358-297866120535800-19-971850-4(CKB)1000000000747122(EBL)431181(OCoLC)320780139(SSID)ssj0000112617(PQKBManifestationID)11127915(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112617(PQKBWorkID)10086940(PQKB)10848718(Au-PeEL)EBL431181(CaPaEBR)ebr10288432(CaONFJC)MIL205358(Au-PeEL)EBL7038588(MiAaPQ)EBC431181(EXLCZ)99100000000074712220080825d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe birth of modern politics[electronic resource] Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the election of 1828 /Lynn Hudson ParsonsOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (277 p.)Pivotal moments in American historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-975424-1 0-19-531287-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-240) and index.Contents; Editor's Note; Prologue; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; IndexThe 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwesetern frontiersman, trumpeted by his supporters as a genuine man of the people, soundly defeated a New England ""aristocrat"" whose education and political resume were as impressive as any ever seen in American public life. It was, many historians have argued, the country's first truly democratic presidential election. Lynn Hudson Parsons argues thaPivotal moments in American history.PresidentsUnited StatesElection1828Political campaignsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical partiesUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPresidentsUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesPolitics and government19th centuryPresidentsElectionPolitical campaignsHistoryPolitical cultureHistoryPolitical partiesHistoryPresidents324.70973973.55Parsons Lynn H475877MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782826903321The birth of modern politics3746745UNINA