The World Almanac of Presidential Campaigns: All the Facts, Anecdotes, Scandals, and Mudslinging in the History of the Race for the White House
Description
Did you know that:George Washington and James Monroe were the only two presidential candidates ever to run unopposed?Political opponents called John Quincy Adams a "pimp" on the unfounded charge he had once procured a girl for a Russian czar?The world "booze" came into the language from a William Henry Harrison campaign item--a miniature log cabin filled with whiskey bottled by the E.C. Booz Distillery?Harper's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast first used the elephant to represent the Republicans during the campaign of 1876?The 1948 Republican convention was the first t...
ISBN(s)
0886876095, 9780886876098
