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Bibliography and Links


Allgor, Catherine. Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build A City and a Government. Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Boller Jr., Paul F. Presidential Campaigns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1975.

Kane, Joseph Nathan. Presidential Fact Book. New York: Random House, 1999.

Meltzer, Milton. Andrew Jackson and His America. New York: Franklin Watts, 1993.

Presidential Elections Since 1789, 4th edition. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1987.

Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.

Remini, Robert V. The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

The People Speak: American Elections in Focus. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1990.


Web Sources:

Search for Margaret Bayard Smith at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html and select "The First Forty Years of Washington Society. "

For a collection of presidential election maps: http://www.uselectionatlas.org

Search for "Andrew Jackson and the Tavern Keeper's Daughter, " by J. Kingston Pierce at www.thehistorynet.com/americanhistory



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