Böcker av Michael F. Holt

With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was an eerie precursor to that of 2000. This offers a fresh interpretation of this disputed election, not merely to rehash claims of fraud but to explain why it was so close.

The Election of 1860 by a preeminent scholar of American history disrupts the familiar narrative for this pivotal election with a clearer and more comprehensive account of how the election unfolded and what it was actually about.

Holt, a leading historian of 19th-century partisan politics, paints a portrait of the genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery.

For more than twenty years Michael Holt has been considered one of the leading specialists in the political history of the United States. Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln is a collection of some of his more important shorter studies on the politics of nineteenth-century America.