The Road to Normalcy: The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920

Bagby, Wesley M.

Edité par Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore MD, 1963

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THE ROAD TO NORMALCY: THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND ELECTION OF 1920, Wesley M. Bagby, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, stated 2nd printing, 1963. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dog ears, or marks. No bookplate or signature of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The red cloth boards are in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in good condition (top and bottom edge chipping, age-toning inside and out). 9 ¼ x 6 ¼, 206 pages, 19 ounces XX [From the dust jacket flaps] ?All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. This is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily is the job? (H. L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun, February 9, 1920). ?The election of 1920 struck a benchmark into U.S. political history. It ended America's flirtation with the League of Nations and spiked the Progressive movement. It left behind the Great War, the liberal tradition, and the dream of Woodrow Wilson. It ushered in a period of government-by-businessmen, complacency, scandal, and crash. In short, the election of 1920 signaled America's return to "normalcy" (a word coined inadvertently by Warren Gamaliel Harding, whose political speeches Mencken said resembled strings of sponges). Here is a drama of American history. The players are familiar, but their roles have not been truly assayed before. Candidate by candidate they appear in their attempts to grab the nominations ? Hiram Johnson, A. Mitchell Palmer, Gen. Leonard Wood, James M. Cox, and the rest. Presented for the first time is the whole account of the preconvention maneuverings and the nominations by both parties. Here, too, is the little-known story of a secret move to nominate Herbert Hoover on the Democratic ticket . and new evidence to account for Harding's nomination and Wood's failure. Finally, we witness Harding's astounding triumph over Cox.? XX ?WESLEY M. BAGBY is in the Department of History at West Virginia University. He took his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1953 and contributes frequently to scholarly journals.?.

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• Titre: The Road to Normalcy: The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920
• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore MD
• Date de parution: 1963
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Impression: 2nd Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Good
• Poids: 19 onces