Weston The Runner-Up Presidency

The Elections That Defied America's Popular Will (and How Our Democracy Remains in Danger)
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4930-2258-8
Verlag: Lyons Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

An entertaining and important account of presidential elections in which the winner of the popular vote lost or came all too close to losing, focusing on the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the disputed elections of 1876 and 2000, the deadlocks of 1800 and 1824 (when the elections were thrown to the House of Representatives) and the close call during the tumultuous year of 1968. Author and historian Mark Weston explains how electoral votes emerged as a compromise between the free states and slave states at the Constitutional Convention, how they were inspired by an unusual method of counting votes in ancient Rome, and how this system played out in six presidential elections that shake our faith in American democracy. The Runner-Up Presidency combines an in-depth political and numerical analysis of America’s electoral system with rich narratives of our six strangest elections.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weston, Mark

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Weston has been a lawyer for ABC Television and a journalist for ABC News, and has written articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. He has also written Prophets and Princes – Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present, (2008) and The Land and People of Pakistan (1992) among other titles. In 1991 Weston won enough money on TV's Jeopardy! to start a company that makes geographical jigsaw puzzles for children. He lives in Sarasota, Florida.