Sean Wilentz

Find a general and run him.

Sean Wilentz again talks about that ball that the Whigs were rolling throughout Ohio.

Upon arriving in Columbus, the Clevelanders met up with another even larger ball covered in cowhide.

Similar rollings occurred throughout the country, even by the Democrats' systematic undercounts.

For Jackson, his reaction is different, Jackson himself.

Corruption, bribery, and fraud has been extended all over the whole Union.

He had expected, Sean Wilentz writes, that the virtuous working masses would thwart the Whigs' campaign of gaiety in Buncombe, in Tennessee, as in the rest of the country.

He had ventured out of the hermitage, even despite his health, to give a speech in praise of Van Buren.

I don't know how familiar you are with the report.

There was a history-specific field report written by Sean Wilentz and Catherine Fleming.

I didn't read the Vanderbilt report, which is negligence on my part.

I read the Yale report that bear on trust.

And we want to analyze, we want Michael to analyze for us the deeper structural problems that lie behind what we've just seen in the midterm elections and also the role of John Roberts in the Supreme Court.

So for now, this session of the Court of History is adjourned on behalf of myself and Sean Wilentz.

Stay tuned for a really important part three with Michael Podhorzer.

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I'm Sidney Blumenthal.

I'm here with my co-host, Sean Wilentz.

The court is now in session.

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Yes, he was.

Yeah.

Well, with that, this session of the Court of History is adjourned on behalf of myself and my co-host, Sean Wilentz.

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Now, it's not until August that John Quincy Adams is actually going to learn that his party has lost the midterms.

Here's Sean Wilentz from The Rise of American Democracy.

His opponents captured majorities in both houses of Congress, dividing the legislature and the executive branches against each other, as never before in American history.

In his third annual message delivered to this hostile new Congress, Adams reported failure after failure in foreign affairs, but included half-hearted offers for moderation of land payment requirements and a vague form of bankruptcy laws reforming them.

I do acknowledge that his personality and allegations about his private behavior had damaged his standing, but his enemies had erected a fabric of falsehood against him.

I deeply lamented.

Here's Sean Wilentz again.

At the center of the presidential intrigues was Senator Martin Van Buren, on the verge of being selected by the New York State Legislature for a second term.

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We're back here with David Blight and Doug Brinkley and Bev Gage, Beverly Gage, to talk about the worst presidents in American history.

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Sidney, We're on the eve now.