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Book Review of A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
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It's interesting to those people who study this era, but the author tried to put drama into something that is usually viewed as a foregone conclusion. Much as today, just because some hot-headed "journalist" of the day said something doesn't make it a mass movement.