Thomas N. Ingersoll was professor of history at The Ohio State University, Lima Campus. He died in 2021 at the age of 73. He was the author of several works, including Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819 and The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England.

"A robust work of synthesis, impressively documented, presenting novel ways of understanding one of the most dramatic and nerve-wracking elections in all of US history. Ingersoll systematically demonstrates that a broad-based desire to overcome social inequities in political life goes back to the nation's founding." — Andrew Burstein, coauthor of The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality"A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty offers a unique perspective of the events of the election of 8 82 8 by exploring its implications for the general populace, including westerners, religious revivalists, women, the enslaved, indigenous peoples, and the laboring poor. It highlights the importance of class struggle, the lack of consensus, and issues of race. Vigorously and clearly written, it is a timely reminder of another more dangerous period of political polarization when power passed for the first time from one party to another and when the system of government was still relatively new." —Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, coauthor of Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence"The late Thomas N. Ingersoll wrote with colorful vigor and independence of mind, refreshingly willing to offer revisionist interpretations based on enormous research in primary sources. While his voluminous notes indicate his awareness of practically all relevant prior scholarship, this is less a synthesis of that scholarship than an exciting work of personal analysis. Few will accept all the author's conclusions, but everyone will benefit from engaging with his keen interpretative narrative. It's an exciting read." — John B. Boles, author of Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty

Thomas N. Ingersoll was professor of history at The Ohio State University, Lima Campus. He died in 2021 at the age of 73. He was the author of several works, including Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819 and The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England.

"A robust work of synthesis, impressively documented, presenting novel ways of understanding one of the most dramatic and nerve-wracking elections in all of US history. Ingersoll systematically demonstrates that a broad-based desire to overcome social inequities in political life goes back to the nation's founding." — Andrew Burstein, coauthor of The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality"A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty offers a unique perspective of the events of the election of 8 82 8 by exploring its implications for the general populace, including westerners, religious revivalists, women, the enslaved, indigenous peoples, and the laboring poor. It highlights the importance of class struggle, the lack of consensus, and issues of race. Vigorously and clearly written, it is a timely reminder of another more dangerous period of political polarization when power passed for the first time from one party to another and when the system of government was still relatively new." —Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, coauthor of Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence"The late Thomas N. Ingersoll wrote with colorful vigor and independence of mind, refreshingly willing to offer revisionist interpretations based on enormous research in primary sources. While his voluminous notes indicate his awareness of practically all relevant prior scholarship, this is less a synthesis of that scholarship than an exciting work of personal analysis. Few will accept all the author's conclusions, but everyone will benefit from engaging with his keen interpretative narrative. It's an exciting read." — John B. Boles, author of Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty

Thomas N. Ingersoll was professor of history at The Ohio State University, Lima Campus. He died in 2021 at the age of 73. He was the author of several works, including Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819 and The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England.

"A robust work of synthesis, impressively documented, presenting novel ways of understanding one of the most dramatic and nerve-wracking elections in all of US history. Ingersoll systematically demonstrates that a broad-based desire to overcome social inequities in political life goes back to the nation's founding." — Andrew Burstein, coauthor of The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality"A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty offers a unique perspective of the events of the election of 8 82 8 by exploring its implications for the general populace, including westerners, religious revivalists, women, the enslaved, indigenous peoples, and the laboring poor. It highlights the importance of class struggle, the lack of consensus, and issues of race. Vigorously and clearly written, it is a timely reminder of another more dangerous period of political polarization when power passed for the first time from one party to another and when the system of government was still relatively new." —Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, coauthor of Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence"The late Thomas N. Ingersoll wrote with colorful vigor and independence of mind, refreshingly willing to offer revisionist interpretations based on enormous research in primary sources. While his voluminous notes indicate his awareness of practically all relevant prior scholarship, this is less a synthesis of that scholarship than an exciting work of personal analysis. Few will accept all the author's conclusions, but everyone will benefit from engaging with his keen interpretative narrative. It's an exciting read." — John B. Boles, author of Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty