Martin Gitlin

Defeated (eBook, ePUB)

Losing Presidential Candidates in American History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A unique examination of U.S. politics and history told through the lives and campaigns of the losing presidential candidates.

As time marches on, more political history seems to get lost in American schools and homes. But the policies and beliefs of presidential candidates provide a fascinating glimpse into the entire history of the United States.

In Defeated: Losing Presidential Candidates in American History, Martin Gitlin offers a unique and informative look at U.S. politics and history through the lives and campaigns of presidential hopefuls who are often overlooked because they lost their bid for the presidency. Each chapter profiles a losing candidate for a specific election-including third-party candidates who made an impact-and features an examination of key issues of the day, details of the election itself, and what happened to the candidate after their loss.

Covering every election from 1796 to 2024, Defeated provides invaluable insight into the policies and personalities of presidential candidates and the history of a nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538192962
• Artikelnr.: 75502295

Autorenporträt

Martin Gitlin is a former newspaper journalist who won more than 45 awards, including first place for general excellence from Associated Press. That organization selected him as one of the top four feature writers in Ohio. He has had more than 200 books published, most of them educational, including many in the realm of twentieth-century American history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Thomas Jefferson (1796)
2: John Adams (1800)
3: Charles Pinckney (1804, 1808)
4: DeWitt Clinton (1812)
5: Rufus King (1816)
6: The Two-Party System (1820)
7: Andrew Jackson (1824)
8: Henry Clay (1824, 1832, 1844)
9: William Crawford (1824)
10: John Quincy Adams (1828)
11: William Henry Harrison (1836)
12: Martin Van Buren (1840)
13: Lewis Cass (1848)
14: Winfield Scott (1852)
15: John C. Fremont (1856)
16: John C. Breckinridge (1860)
17: George B. McClellan (1864)
18: Horatio Seymour (1868)
19: Horace Greeley (1872)
20: Samuel J. Tilden (1876)
21: Winfield Scott Hancock (1880)
22: James G. Blaine (1884)
23: Grover Cleveland (1888)
24: Benjamin Harrison (1892)
25: William Jennings Bryan (1896, 1900, 1908)
26: Alton B. Parker (1904)
27: Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
28: Charles Evans Hughes (1916)
29: James M. Cox (1920)
30: John W. Davis (1924)
31: Al Smith (1928)
32: Herbert Hoover (1932)
33: Alf Landon (1936)
34: Wendell Willkie (1940)
35: Thomas E. Dewey (1944, 1948)
36: Adlai Stevenson (1952, 1956)
37: Richard Nixon (1960)
38: Barry Goldwater (1964)
39: Hubert Humphrey (1968)
40: George McGovern (1972)
41: Gerald Ford (1976)
42: Jimmy Carter (1980)
43: Walter Mondale (1984)
44: Michael Dukakis (1988)
45: George H. Bush (1992)
46: Bob Dole (1996)
47: Al Gore (2000)
48: John Kerry (2004)
49: John McCain (2008)
50: Mitt Romney (2012)
51: Hillary Clinton (2016)
52: Donald Trump (2020)
53: Kamala Harris (2024)
Notes
About the Author