The controversial presidential election of 1800 between John Adams and his vice president Thomas Jefferson spawned the two-party system we have today. We’ll discuss the bitter campaign that resulted in Jefferson winning the White House and how it changed American politics forever.

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  • Edward Larson Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of history and law at Pepperdine University.

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