About the Author

Harold I. Gullan studied at Johns Hopkins, St. Joseph’s, and Temple universities, and is now an independent scholar living in Philadelphia. His work on presidential politics has appeared in the Presidential Studies Quarterly.

Reviews

Gullan has written a nuts-and-bolts political history that is very readable.
*Publishers Weekly*

Challenging and controversial...a truly combative account.
*Journal of Southern History*

A concise, nicely written look at one of the most interesting elections in American history.
*The Historian*