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Campaigning for the literary marketplace: Nathaniel Hawthorne, David Bartlett, and the Life of Franklin Pierce.

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From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Date: 20080301
Author:Roggenkamp, Karen

Since the 1824 presidential race, campaign biographies have constituted a distinct genre of American biographical literature. Awakened by the emerging power of a mass electorate, presidential candidates sought innovative strategies for delivering themselves and their political platforms to American voters, and the biography emerged to address an increasingly literate and print-bound nation. As M. J. Heale comments, biographies were "the most effective means of reaching a mass, generally literate audience," utilizing an increasingly sophisticated network of print distribution ...

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