The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race

by Donald J. Ratcliffe

Book Overview

Winner: American Politics Group Richard E Neustadt Prize

Winner: Sally and Morris Lasky Prize

The election of 1824 is commonly viewed as a mildly interesting contest involving several colorful personalities--John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and William H. Crawford--that established Old Hickory as the people's choice and yet, through "bargain and corruption," deprived him of the presidency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700632476
• ISBN13: 9780700632473
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"