Charles L. Zelden is professor of history at Nova Southeastern University. His previous books include Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary and Voting Rights on Trial. He was an on-air commentator during the 2000 election for the local NBC News affiliate in Miami and other media.
"A comprehensive, provocative, and timely study of the high- stakes
legal drama of the 2000 presidential election."--Publishers
Weekly"Clear, balanced, and quite engaging. . . . [written] in a
way that is comprehensible even to non-legal readers. An impressive
feat."--Law and History Review"A must-read for anyone who cares
about the future of American democracy."--Dallas Morning
News"Zelden's book reads as a journalistic account, with the drama
of a novel, but with circumstances that are stranger than fiction.
. . . Invaluable to scholars, students, and anyone interested in
understanding the confusion and the litigation that surrounded the
2000 presidential election in Florida."--Law and Politics Book
Review"A masterful synthesis that promises to be a classic work,
Zelden's book recaptures the suspense, confusion, and frustration
of the 2000 presidential election, and infuses it with renewed
relevance."--H-Net Reviews
"A superior achievement. Zelden writes clearly and precisely,
laying the issues out patiently and thereby presenting a convincing
account of such matters as overvotes and undervotes and dimpled and
hanging chads. I also admire his nonpartisan restraint. While it's
clear that he finds aspects of the Court's decision disappointing
or unconvincing, he doesn't have a large axe to grind, which is
what makes his critique so persuasive."--James T. Patterson,
Bancroft Prize winner and author of Restless Giant: The United
States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
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