TEXTBOOK ORDER

Semester:         Fall 2009

Course:            POL-344 Senior Seminar: Critical Presidential Elections

Sections:          001

Instructor:       Christopher Gilbert

Enrollment:     probably 9, no more than 12

 

All of these books are REQUIRED.  All of them should be in paperback, too.

 

1. James Chace

1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs – the Election that Changed the Country

Simon & Schuster

ISBN-13:  978-0743273558

used in fall 2007

 

2. John Ferling

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

Oxford University Press

ISBN-13:  978-0195189063

used in fall 2007

 

3. Gary Donaldson

Liberalism’s Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964

M.E. Sharpe

ISBN-13:  978-0765611192

used in fall 2007

 

4.  Gary Donaldson

The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960

Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN-13: 978-0742548008

 

5.  Lynn Hudson Parsons

The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828

Oxford University Press

ISBN-13:  978-0195312874