Details

Subject(s)

• Campaign funds—United States [Browse]
• Presidents—United States—Election—History [Browse]
• Presidents—United States—Nomination [Browse]

Related name

• Congressional Quarterly, inc [Browse]

Summary note

• Selecting the President: From 1789 to 1996 explores all important aspects of the presidential selection process: the candidate's decision to enter the presidential race, campaign strategy and fund-raising, primaries and caucuses, national party conventions, the general election campaign, and the electoral college.
• The volume also looks at the transition period when presidents-elect assemble their White House staffs and contains detailed historical summaries of each presidential election from George Washington's first electoral victory in 1789 to Bill Clinton's second in 1996.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Ch. 1. The Electoral Process. History of Presidential Elections. The Campaign Finance System. The Nominating Process. General Election Campaign. The Election
• Ch. 2. Taking Office. The Transition Period. The Inauguration
• Ch. 3. Chronology of Presidential Elections. The Emergence of the Electoral Process. The Age of Jackson. The Idea of a Party System. Slavery Divides the Nation. Postwar Radicalism. The Age of Republicanism. The Age of Reform. The "Return to Normalcy" and the Roaring Twenties. The New Deal Coalition. The Breakup of Consensus. The New Conservative Discourse. Democrats Regain the White House.

ISBN

156802312X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97006398^

OCLC

36407802

RCP

H - S

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