| Author/Contributor(s): | Callahan, David P |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Date: | 07/05/2022 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The Politics of Corruption examines the U.S. presidential election of 1824 as a critical contest in the nation's political history, full of colorful characters and brimming with unexpected twists. The race of 1824 inaugurated the transition from the sedate, elitist elections of the Jeffersonian era toward the showier yet also more democratized presidential races that came to characterize Jacksonian America. In the end, self-styled political outsider Jackson successfully equated regular politics with corruption yet still lost the contest to Washington's ultimate insider, John Quincy Adams. It was a defeat Jackson would not forget, animating him to fundamentally change the ways American politics were conducted ever after.