"Allen Epps" wrote in message
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I highly recommend both "The rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and "Theodore
Rex" both by Edmund Morris for anyone who thinks politics now are
nastier than ever.

Allen

The short recapitulation of the events surrounding Jefferson's first
election, roughly a century earlier, in November's "Smithsonian"
("Cliffhanger: The Election of 1800", by John Ferling) provides a similar
insight into the more or less steady state of American national politics.

Wolfgang
and then there's that whole burr/hamilton thingy.