Presidential campaigns : from George Washington to George W. Bush / Paul F. Boller, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-466) and index.

1. 1789 - Starting off : George Washington -- 2. 1792 - Washington again -- 3. 1796 - Federalist succession : John Adams -- 4. 1800 - Republican takeover : Jefferson's revolution -- 5. 1804 - Jefferson's landslide -- 6. 1808 - Madison and the Dambargo -- 7. 1812 - Madison's wartime re-election -- 8. 1816 - Monroe : another Virginia victory -- 9. 1820 - Monroe's quiet re-election -- 10. 1824 - John Quincy Adams and the "corrupt bargain" -- 11. 1828 - Jackson vs. Adams -- 12. 1832 - Jackson, Clay, and the bank war -- 13. 1836 - Van Buren's victory over three whigs -- 14. 1840 - Tippecanoe and Tyler too -- 15. 1844 - Polk and Manifest Destiny -- 16. 1848 - Old Zach and the Michigander -- 17. 1852 - Frank Pierce and old fuss and feathers -- 18. 1856 - Buchanan and bleeding Kansas -- 19. 1860 - Lincoln and the sectional crisis -- 20. 1864 - Lincoln and the war crisis -- 21. 1868 - Grant and reconstruction -- 22. 1872 - Grant and the liberal republicans -- 23. 1876 - The Hayes-Tilden disputed election -- 24. 1880 - The triumph of "Boatman Jim" Garfield -- 25. 1884 - The Cleveland-Blaine context -- 26. 1888 - Harrison, Cleveland, and the tariff -- 27. 1892 - Cleveland's return to power -- 28. 1896 - McKinley, Bryan, and free silver -- 29. 1900 - The McKinley-Roosevelt triumph -- 30. 1904 - T.R.'s smashing victory -- 31. 1908 - Taft's big victory over Bryan -- 32. 1912 - The high tide of progressivism : Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft -- 33. 1916 - Wilson and the great war -- 34. 1920 - Harding, nostrums, and normalcy -- 35. 1924 - Keeping cool with Coolidge -- 36. 1928 - Hoover, Smith, and the Catholic issue -- 37. 1932 - Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Great Depression -- 38. 1936 - Roosevelt and the New Deal -- 39. 1940 - Roosevelt, Willkie, and the war in Europe -- 40. 1944 - Roosevelt's wartime mandate -- 41. 1948 - The great Truman surprise -- 42. 1952 - The Eisenhower landslide -- 43. 1956 - Another Eisenhower landslide -- 44. 1960 - Kennedy and the new frontier -- 45. 1964 - Lyndon Johnson and the great society -- 46. 1968 - Nixon, Humphrey, and the Vietnam War -- 47. 1972 - Another Nixon triumph -- 48. 1976 - The triumph of an outsider : Jimmy Carter -- 49. 1980 - The Reagan victory -- 50. 1984 - Another Reagan sweep -- 51. 1988 - Trivial pursuit : Bush vs. Dukakis -- 52. 1992 - Clinton and the call for change -- 53. 1996 - Bill Clinton and the vital center -- 54. 2000 - Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court -- Postscript - Presidential campaigns through the years.