| Description |
320 pages ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
The early years (1788-1836) : from Washington to Jackson -- Tippecanoe and Tyler too : the first great singing campaign, the historic election of 1840 -- Locofocos, Whigs and Free-Soilers : war with Mexico and the great antislavery agitation -- Free speech, free soil, free men, Fremont! : the campaign of 1856 and the birth of the Republican party -- Lincoln and liberty : songs of the four-way race of 1860 and the wartime contest of 1864 -- Republicans all : the postwar era, in which Republicans win four times running -- Time for a change : the Cleveland campaigns, 1884, 1888, 1892 -- O, the people's ticket! : the farmer and labor revolts of the 1880s and 1890s -- Gold bugs and silver lions : the McKinley-Bryan campaigns of 1896 and 1900 -- Teddy, Taft and Wilson, that's all : ragtime campaigns of the early years of the twentieth century -- What a weapon is the ballot! : the singing campaigns of Prohibitionists, Socialists, and woman Suffragists -- The Republican twenties : after the war and before the depression -- The Roosevelt years : the New Deal becomes a revival -- The recent years : the presidential contests of 1948 through the present. |
| Genre/Form |
Campaign songs.
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Campaign songs.
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| Subject |
Political ballads and songs -- United States.
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Political ballads and songs. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Silber, Irwin, 1925-2010.
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| ISBN |
0811715728 |
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