Defeated : Losing Presidential Candidates in American History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gitlin, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Election.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

A unique examination of U.S. politics and history told through the lives, campaigns, policies, and personalities of the losing presidential candidates of every election from 1796 to 2024.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

979-88-8184-415-8

979-88-8186-258-9

1-5381-9296-9

OCLC:

1540343875