The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in DemocracyThis work discusses how politics, democracy, and the presidency evolved in the United States from 1789 to 1923. |
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Contents
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
JACKSON AND VAN BUREN III | 111 |
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| Title | The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in Democracy |
| Author | Herbert Agar |
| Editors | Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1933 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 337 pages |
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