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The left rewriting America's best historical fiction finalist: the January 20, 2001 “inaugural BAWL” in Tallahassee, Florida

The presidential election in 2000 was hotly contested. On the day George W. Bush was inaugurated, protests occurred throughout the United States. This paper describes a counter‐celebration, an anti‐inaugural ball, which occurred in Tallahassee, Florida, on January 20, 2001. The author argues that the success of this particular community's counter‐celebration, billed as the “Inaugural Bawl,” was in part due to the way it provided the left the “climax” it thought it deserved. Moreover, the bawl served as a significant retelling of the events of the previous three months, a retelling that rang true for Tallahassee's progressives at that particular historical moment.