Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the unintentional campaign
  • A new republic and its discontents
  • Popular politics in a postcolonial nation
  • The Jay Treaty crisis and the origins of the 1796 campaign
  • From measures to "that man" : toward the presidential option for political change
  • The long goodbye : finding candidates in the shadow of Washington
  • The first culture war : themes and issues of the Federalist campaign against Thomas Jefferson
  • His rotundity : themes and issues of the democratic-republican campaign against John Adams
  • Taking the electoral college to school : how presidential electors helped create the national presidential election rather than preventing it
  • The party racers : voting for president in 1796
  • Epilogue : kiss my ass and go to Hell.