Publisher's Synopsis
This is a panoramic excursion trough the half-hidden history of presidential nominating conventions held in Philadelphia, Americas original convention city, by the nation's leading political parties over the past century-and-a-half. This book helps to put the 2000 convention into a broader historical context of issues, traditions, debates, and candidates. Sautter's story captures the personalities, the oratory, the intrigue, the drama, the festive setting of these political conventions and the national campaigns and elections that followed them in 1848, 1856, 1872, 1900, 1936, 1940 and in the triple convention year of 1948.
