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Election eve, 1800 -- An affection that can never die : Adams and Jefferson -- Dark and menacing evils : creating the new national system, 1786-1792 -- War on our own citizens : partisanship, 1793-1796 -- Quite at my leisure : Jefferson and Adams on the eve of the battle in 1796 -- A narrow squeak, 1796 : the first contested presidential election -- To recover self-government : the partisan inferno, 1797-1798 -- Our Bonaparte : summer 1798 to autumn 1799 -- We beat you by superior management : winter and spring, 1800 -- The boisterous sea of liberty : the campaign of 1800 -- The intention of our fellow citizens : the election of 1800 -- Give them the horrors : the House decides the election -- The creed of our political faith : Jefferson's inauguration -- Epilogue : the revolution of 1800.