A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign

Free Press, New York, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 333 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election-an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second revolution." This was America's first true presidential campaign, giving birth to our two-party system and indelibly etching the lines of partisanship that have so profoundly shaped American politics ever since. The contest featured two of our most beloved Founding Fathers, once warm friends, facing off as the heads of their two still-forming parties-the hot-tempered but sharp-minded John Adams, and the eloquent yet enigmatic Thomas Jefferson-flanked by the brilliant tacticians Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, who later settled their own differences in a duel. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0743293177. ISBN/EAN: 9780743293174. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3378. . 9780743293174