This book interweaves rhetoric, history, and politics to tell the story of the 1824 presidential election and the political drama that engulfed Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
Amos Kiewe is former chair of the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and former assistant and associate dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: The Candidates
Chapter Two: Jackson For President
Chapter Three: Clay For President
Chapter Four: The Election Is Not Over
Chapter Five: A "Military Chieftain"
Chapter Six: Clay Speaks To His District
Chapter Seven: Post-Election
Chapter Eight: The Presidential Campaign Is Underway, Again
Chapter Nine: Enters James Buchanan
Chapter Ten: Markley Comes Forward
Chapter Eleven: The Charge That Would Not Die
Epilogue
Afterthought
Bibliography
About the Author