Partisan politics, just like today…

Book review:

A Magnificent Catastrophe:

The Tumultuous Election of 1800,

America’s First Presidential Campaign

by Edward J. Larson

New York: Free Press, 2007

A Magnificent Catastrophe tells us about yet another nightmare in American history that we don’t know well enough.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went head to head in the first presidential campaign that was based on party politics and partisan venality and telling lies for political advantage.

In other words, just like today.

The election outcome in 1800 wasn’t clear cut—the politicians were at each other’s throats, and the public interest was lost in the shuffling.

Politics started getting its bad name more than 200 years ago.

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Book review: Forced Founders

by Woody Holton

The so-called “Founding Fathers”

weren’t the only ones

who helped to shape our independence…

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