Editor's Note
Preface to the Paperback
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Lynn Hudson Parsons is Professor of History Emeritus at the State University of New York College at Brockport. He is the author of John Quincy Adams and coeditor, with Kenneth Paul O'Brien, of The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society.
"'The Birth of Modern Politics' is short, smart, well-written and
well-researched. Lynn Hudson Parsons is clearly a fair- minded and
scrupulous historian. So it feels a bit churlish to point out that
his fine new book is not about the birth of modern
politics."--Washington Post
"The author pulls no punches as he tells the real story of the
fighting man's world that was the 1820s, an unheralded decade in
textbooks that well deserves the full treatment it gets
here....When you can read crisply written history from a trained
historian with something profound on his mind, why go with
popularizers and pundits? The Birth of Modern Politics is both the
anatomy of a campaign and a clever dissection of partisanship. It
engages with
competing interpretations and ably recovers the spirit of a usable
past."--Baton Rouge Advocate
"Sharply focused introduction to an election that fundamentally
changed the landscape of American politics."--Kirkus Reviews
"Engaging and accessible account....This worthy addition to the
excellent Pivotal Moments in American History series will appeal to
general readers in public libraries and to historians who might
want to consider it for courses."--ForeWord magazine
"The election of 1828 modernized American politics. A two-party
mass democracy replaced the patrician republic created by the
Founders. In 1828, the Jacksonians skillfully burnished their
candidate's image, while the followers of Adams emphasized their
program for nationwide economic development. Lynn Hudson Parsons
respects Adams, but Jackson engages his sympathies."--Daniel Walker
Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought:
The
Transformation of America, 1815-1848
"The Birth of Modern Politics will become the indispensable work on
the formation of the antebellum political system. Scholars of early
America have long awaited a modern study of the election of 1828,
and this volume will delight and inform specialists and general
readers alike. Each page contains deft assessments, crisp writing,
and provocative analysis. Together with John Quincy Adams, this
elegantly crafted study establishes Parsons as the
leading authority on the 1820s."--Douglas R. Egerton, author of
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
"Lynn Parsons' Birth of Modern Politics is much more than a
marvelously entertaining and balanced account of the modernity of
the 1828 election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. In
brilliantly contrasting the divergent paths the two political
leaders took to that contest, he offers valuable insights into
major issues in United States political history from the Revolution
to the 1830s. He deftly highlights both change and continuity.
In
showing that 1828 was a 'tectonic shift' in the bedrock that
underlay the nation's social, economic, and political landscape,
Parsons also points in timely fashion--highlighted by recent
presidential outcomes and
candidates--to the birth of the long tradition of
anti-intellectualism in American politics."--Ron Formisano,
Professor of History, University of Kentucky
"[A] valuable resource...few other accounts present the story as
thoughtfully."--Journal of Southern History
"A lively, deeply-informed and fast paced look at a presidential
election that changed America and American politics."--Karl Rove
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