The "Corrupt Bargain" That Started It All

On the Media | Apr 29, 2016

We can look to the GOP maneuvering of 1964 and the shadowy Democratic sabotage of 1972 for two modern cases of nominee-jiggering, but the root of our suspicion of these deals lies much further back: in the election of 1824. Brooke talks to Daniel Feller, professor of history at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, about how that election, and the "corrupt bargain" that decided it, laid the groundwork for our modern two-party system and the notion that the people, not the politicians, should get to pick the president.

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