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The election of 1824 is commonly viewed as a mildly interesting contest involving colourful personalities that established Old Hickory as the people's choice and yet, through ""bargain and corruption"", deprived him of the presidency. Donald Ratcliffe reveals that Jackson was not the most popular candidate and the corrupt bargaining was a myth.

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The election of 1824 is commonly viewed as a mildly interesting contest involving colourful personalities that established Old Hickory as the people's choice and yet, through ""bargain and corruption"", deprived him of the presidency. Donald Ratcliffe reveals that Jackson was not the most popular candidate and the corrupt bargaining was a myth.
Autorenporträt
Donald Ratcliffe is emeritus reader in history at the University of Durham and supernumerary research and teaching fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. His many publications include Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821 and The Politics of Long Division: The Birth of the Second Party System in Ohio, 1818-1828.