American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction / L. Sandy Maisel
SYSNO 6474487, přírůstkové číslo 7430

Seznam obrázků v dokumentu:
1. Harry S Truman takes the oath of office as president of the United States in the Cabinet Room of the White House, following the death of President Roosevelt in April 1945.
2. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
3. John Adams, Gouverneur Morris, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, political leaders of the early American republic, were among the founders of the nation’s first political parties.
4. The heated political rivalry between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton ended in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, on July 11, 1804.
5. Ronald Reagan accepts the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, on August 23,1984. Describing a partisan view of the differences between the Republicans and Democrats, he said, ‘‘The choices this year are ... between two fundamentally different ways of governing–their government of pessimism, fear, and limits, or ours of hope, confidence, and growth.”
6. President Lyndon Johnson pays homage to Chicago’s longtime political boss, Mayor Richard Daley.
7. A woman suffrage procession makes its way through the streets of Washington, DC, on March 3,1913. The expansion of the franchise had the potential to double the size of the electorate.
8. Officials tally votes at the presidential primary in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, traditionally the first town in the state to report its results.
9. President George H. W. Bush waves from the back of the train outside Bowling Green on a whistle-stop campaign trip through Ohio in September 1992.
10. Moderator Jim Lehrer and George W. Bush listen to Democratic candidate Al Gore as he answers a question during the presidential debate in Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University in October 2000.