Joseph Cummins

Anything for a Vote

Today’s political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative campaigning. But history reveals that smear campaigns are as American as apple pie. Anything for a Vote  is an illustrated look at 200-plus years of dirty tricks and bad behavior in presidential elections–from George Washington to G. W. Bush. Highlights include:

Ten Tea Parties

Every kid knows the story of 1773’s Boston Tea Party, in which colonists ambushed three British ships and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. But do you know the story of the New Jersey Tea Party (December 1773)? How about the Annapolis Tea Party (October 1774) or the Charleston Tea Party (November 1774)?

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