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Obama, Clinton, Palin making history in election 2008 /

Table of Contents: “…Historical precedents, or How election 2008 began before the Civil War -- pt. III. …”
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John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the politics of ethnic incorporation and avoidance by Smith, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding ethnicity and ethnic incorporation in the United States -- The subordination of Irish Catholics and African Americans -- Identity, solidarity and culture : Irish Catholics and African Americans -- Boston and Chicago and the rise of Kennedy and Obama -- Ethnic men : the Al Smith and Jesse Jackson campaigns -- The incorporation of the Catholic Irish, and the semi-incorporation of African Americans -- Kennedy and Obama : charisma, character and ethnic identity -- Religion and the election of 1960 -- Race and the election of 2008 -- The politics of ethnic avoidance in the Kennedy and Obama administrations.…”
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For the freedom of her race Black women and electoral politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 / by Materson, Lisa G.

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The making of a Catholic president Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 / by Casey, Shaun

Subjects: “…Presidents United States Election 1960.…”
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Free hearts and free homes gender and American antislavery politics / by Pierson, Michael D.

Table of Contents: “…Liberty party gender ideologies -- From liberty to free soil : gender and emancipation -- Antislavery women and the triumph of domestic feminism -- Democrats and the defense of patriarchy -- Gender in the 1856 Republican campaign -- Republican women and the 1856 election -- Republican gender ideology in 1860.…”
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Roots of secession slavery and politics in antebellum Virginia / by Link, William A.

Table of Contents: “…A slave society : Virginia in the 1850s -- Boastful and belligerent champions of southern institutions : slavery and politics, 1851-1854 -- A uniform spirit of lawlessness : the problem of runaways -- A spirit of license in the guise of liberty : the survival of opposition, 1854-1856 -- The darkest and most perilous hours of our national existence : the deepening sectional crisis, 1856-1859 -- A black demon of fanaticism : Harpers Ferry and the election of 1860 -- To light the torch of servile insurrection : the secession crisis.…”
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