Been there, done that : how our history shows what we can overcome / Greg Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Greg (Podcaster), Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption--United States--History.

Political corruption.

Political culture--United States--History.

Political culture.

Partisanship--History.

Partisanship.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States--History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 414 pages illustrations, map 24 cm

illustrations.

maps.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Other Title:

How our history shows what we can overcome

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.

Summary:

"Our nation's past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The political gentlemanly conduct of yesteryear is no more than a myth. But that reality never allowed our worst historical selves to defeat our better angels. In Been There, Done That, Greg looks back in time to eight examples from our nation's history and shows that some of the hottest issues of our day are, in fact, American traditions that stand firmly beside another deeply American trait: the will to push back on these demons, prevail, and overcome. It may be 250 years since this country's founding, but the playbook has remained mostly the same. From the Founding Father's hyperpartisan print war of the 1790s, to the caning of Senator Charles Sumner in 1856, to the thoroughly corrupt presidential election of 1876, and all the way through the yellow journalism and print war of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randoph Hearst, you will recognize how familiar these stories are to our own supposedly unprecedented times."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Author's note

Introduction: Messy tales

Founding partisanship: The mudslinging battle of the Gazettes

The Baltimore riots of 1812

The 'pimp' John Quincy Adams vs. the 'common prostitutes' son Andrew Jackson (or, the elections of 1824 and '28)

A brutal bloody bludgeoning: The caning of Senator Charles Sumner

Interlude: A note on the civil war and our present

Overlapping and unprecedented crises: The first presidential assassination and the first presidential impeachment

Two Louisana governments and the Battle of Liberty Place

The most corrupt presidential election ever: 'The fraud of the century' election of 1876

The golden age of fake news: Yellow journalism

Conclusion: Men aren't angels and how we overcome

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-402) and index.

ISBN:

9781668062609

1668062607

OCLC:

1572398996

Publisher Number:

90104770232