The Lack of Scholarship on the 1844 Presidential Election

As the title suggests, there is a lack of scholarship on the 1844 presidential election, and it makes me so fucking angry.

It doesn't make any sense. I don't see why there is a lack of scholarship on the 1844 presidential election. It had everything. In 1840, William Henry Harrison won an election that would forever change the way campaigns were conducted. Shortly after taking office in 1841, President Harrison died. It was the first time in history that a sitting U.S. president croaked. In order to win, the Whigs had nominated John Tyler, a southern states-rights' advocate, as vice president. Now Tyler, who leaned Democratic on the issues, had become president. But he never gained wide support and was forced to drop out of the 1844 campaign.

As a result, there was a free-for-all for the Democratic nomination. Former president Martin Van Buren made a bid. Future president James Buchanan tried his luck. Former Vice President John Calhoun, who first began running for president in 1821, put forth a feeble attempt for the honor. In the end, the victor was the eventual president, a dark horse candidate, James K. Polk. He would go on to defeat the standard-bearer of Whiggery, Henry Clay.

Why aren't there any books on this? This is taking place less than two short decades before the commencement of the Civil War. This election was virtually the cause of the Mexican-American War. Yet, I searched the Georgetown library and JSTOR and nothing! I'm filled with a rage greater than you can imagine. It's like someone murdered my parents. And then grabbed each of their decapitated heads by their hair and then used those heads as puppets in order to act out a commonplace argument between two spouses in which they eventually makeup. Why is the murderer showing me this? That's exactly the feeling bubbling within me at the reality that there is a lack of scholarship on the 1844 presidential election.