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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. If

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<v Speaker 1>you think that this political era that we're living through

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<v Speaker 1>is the most contentious ever in American history, you might

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<v Speaker 1>want to think again. There's a book called A Magnificent Catastrophe,

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<v Speaker 1>The Tumultuous Election of eighteen hundred, America's first presidential campaign.

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<v Speaker 1>It's by Poetzer Prize winner Edward Larson. It's the story

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<v Speaker 1>of the first partisan election. In seventeen ninety six, John Adams,

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<v Speaker 1>the Federalists, became president, with Vice President Thomas Jefferson, the

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<v Speaker 1>leader of the Republicans the opposition. Then, in seventeen ninety nine,

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<v Speaker 1>the two of them faced off to run against each other,

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<v Speaker 1>and in that contest scoreless charges insults of all kinds,

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<v Speaker 1>with each side calling the other a supreme threat to democracy.

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<v Speaker 1>Personalities of that period were sharp and exercised, big names

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<v Speaker 1>like Samuel Adams, James Madison, J Pinkney Monroe, not to

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<v Speaker 1>mention Alexander Hamilton, and Republican organizer Aaron Burr. A Magnificent

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<v Speaker 1>Catastrophe by Edward Larson. The Book Club w BZ, Boston's

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<v Speaker 1>news radio