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Contested Presidential Elections Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt Fall 2016 The Sound and the Fury: Contested Presidential Elections Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt Fall 2016 Selected Bibliography – Carole Bucy [email protected] [email protected] (Feel free to call my office, 615-230-3394, during school hours. I am happy to chat with any of you if I answer the phone. If I don’t answer, the one request that I make is this: please do not leave me a message asking me to return your call. I have a great deal of trouble returning phone calls. I am always happy to talk to you when I answer the phone.) Class 1 – Overview of the Electoral College and the Election of 1800 Zecharias, Jared, editor. Amendment XII: Presidential Election Process Class 2 – Election of 1800 Ellis, Joseph. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Ellis, Joseph. Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams Ferling, John. Adams vs. Jefferson Larson, Edward J. A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign McDougall, Walter A. Freedom Just Around the Corner, 1585-1828 Wills, Garry. “Negro President”: Jefferson and the Slaver Power Class 3 - Election of 1824/1828 Parsons, Lynn Hudson: The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 (has good bios of Jackson and Adams) McDougall, Walter A. Freedom Just Around the Corner, 1585-1828 Reynolds, David S. Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson Unger, Harlowe Giles. John Quincy Adams, 2012. Class 4 – Election of 1876 Holt, Michael F. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 Morris, Roy, Jr. Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 Class 5 - Election of 1896 Glad, Paul W.: McKinley, Bryan, and the People, 1964. Williams, R. Hal: Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896, 2010. Class 6 – Election of 1912 Berg, A. Scott. Wilson Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt & the Golden Age of Journalism General Overviews about American Politics & Presidential Elections Gerhardt, Michael J. The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy, Oxford University Press, 2013. Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction in 1964) Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition & the Men Who Made It Leuchtenburg, William E. The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. Oxford University Press, 2015. American Presidents Series, edited by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. University of Kansas Press American Presidency Series Any Used College Survey of United States History textbook Keene, Jennifer d. et al. Visions of America: A History of the United States Roark, James L. The American Promise Tindall, George Brown & David E. Shi: America: A Narrative History Oxford History of the United States Series edited by C. Vann Woodward & Richard Hofstadter, began in the 1950s Volume 1: Colonial America by T. H. Breen Volume 2: The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff Volume 3: Early National America, 1789–1815 by Gordon S. Wood Volume 4: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846 by Charles Grier Sellers Volume 5: The Civil War by James M. McPherson Volume 6: Reconstruction and Industrial America by George M. Fredrickson Volume 7: Early 20th Century America, 1900–1930 by William H. Harbaugh Volume 8: The New Deal, 1930–1945 by David M. Kennedy Volume 9: Postwar America, 1945–1968 by William E. Leuchtenburg Volume 10: The American Economy by Stuart Bruchey Volume 11: American Diplomacy by Norman A. Graebner Oxford History of the United States series edited by David Kennedy Mancall, Peter, American Origins, 2017 Anderson, Fred & Andrew Cayton, Imperial America, 1674-1763, 2016 (may not be out yet) Miscellaneous Middlekauff, Robert, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 Wood, Gordon S. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1780-1815 Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era White, Richard, This Favored Nation, 2017. Schulman, Bruce. Reawakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929, scheduled for publication 2018. Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression & War, 1929-1945 Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore Herring, C. Herring. From Colony to superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, 2nd edition, 2017 Miscellaneous Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic: a Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President .
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