| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign. By Edward J. Larson. (New York: Free Press, 2007. xiv, 335 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-0-7432-9316-7.)

In this well-paced, finely crafted narrative, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson turns his skills to one of the most closely contested and highly significant presidential elections in U.S. history: the "magnificent catastrophe" that was the election of 1800. In ten deftly written chapters, plus an introduction and epilogue, Larson sure-handedly guides readers through the maze of local and national issues, personalities, dramas, and controversies that played out in 1799–1800, culminating in the election of Thomas Jefferson over John Adams and then Aaron Burr.

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