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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign

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They could write like angels and scheme like demons So begins Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Larson s masterful account of the wild ride that used to be the 1800 presidential election an election so convulsive and so momentous to the way forward for American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it The united states s second revolution This used to be The united states s first true presidential campaign giving birth to our two party system and indelibly etching the lines of partisanship that have so profoundly shaped American politics ever since The contest featured two of our most beloved Founding Fathers once warm friends facing off as the heads of their two still forming parties the hot tempered but sharp minded John Adams and the eloquent yet enigmatic Thomas Jefferson flanked by the brilliant tacticians Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr who later settled their own differences in a duel The country used to be descending into turmoil reeling from the terrors of the French Revolution and on the point of war with France Blistering accusations flew as our young nation used to be torn apart along party lines Adams and his elitist Federalists would squelch liberty and impose a British style monarchy Jefferson and his radically democratizing Republicans would throw the country into chaos and debase the role of religion in American life The stakes could not have been higher As the competition heated up other founders joined the fray James Madison John Jay James Monroe Gouverneur Morris George Clinton John Marshall Horatio Gates and even George Washington a few of them emerging from retirement to answer the political crisis gripping the nation and threatening its future Drawing on unprecedented meticulous research of the everyday unfolding drama from diaries and letters of the principal players in addition to accounts within the fast evolving partisan press Larson vividly re creates the mounting tension as one state after every other voted and the press had the lead passing back

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