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.
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