Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Margaret O´mara
Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political punditry, often heated, vitriolic, and petty. Yet presidential elections also provoke and inspire mass engagement of ordinary citizens in the political system. No matter how frustrated or disinterested voters might be about politics and government, every four years, on the first Tuesday in November, the attention of the nation—and the world—focuses on the candidates, the contest, and the issues. The ... Read more
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Anne Kornblut, Washington Post
"Pivotal Tuesdays is a substantial achievement-a trenchant, balanced ... Read more