Description
Book SynopsisIn this book, Amos Kiewe explores the story of the 1824 Presidential election, when the House of Representatives elected the president after no candidate won outright the majority of the Electoral College. Though most in the nation assumed that Andrew Jackson, who won the popular vote and the plurality of the Electoral College, would be elected the presidency by the House, Kiewe demonstrates how maneuvering, vote trading, and special favors dictated a different outcome. Through inspecting speeches, statements, private letters, and published accounts, Kiewe simultaneously intersects rhetoric, history, and politics as variables that help to tell the story of the 1824 presidential election. Scholars of communication, political science, and history will find this book of particular interest.
Trade Review“Kiewe’s study of the 1824 election involving Jackson and Clay offers vastly more than a detailed history of unliving proceedings or facts along a rapidly moving historical timeline. Rather, his micro-analysis of the language used during the campaigns, deployed throughout the debates, offered sotto voce in backroom chambers, and revealed through other public venues adds to the contour of not just rhetorical invention of the time, but also of discursive style. Kiewe offers readers a close-textual glimpse into one of our nation’s first truly tumultuous and uncertain electoral moments.”
--- Jason Edward Black, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
-- Jason Edward Black
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: The Candidates
Chapter Two: Jackson For President
Chapter Three: Clay For President
Chapter Four: The Election Is Not Over
Chapter Five: A “Military Chieftain”
Chapter Six: Clay Speaks To His District
Chapter Seven: Post-Election
Chapter Eight: The Presidential Campaign Is Underway, Again
Chapter Nine: Enters James Buchanan
Chapter Ten: Markley Comes Forward
Chapter Eleven: The Charge That Would Not Die
Epilogue
Afterthought
Bibliography
About the Author
