Counting Every Vote: The Most Contentious Elections in American History

by Eric B. Shiraev, Robert Dudley, Eric Shiraev

Book Overview

The 2000 U.S. presidential election was not the first in American history that was exceptionally close or that produced highly disputed results. In 1801 Thomas Jefferson became president after an electoral gridlock, but only after Congress voted three dozen times to select the president. Charles Hughes lost in 1916 to Woodrow Wilson by losing in California by some 3,000 votes. In 1960 John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon by only a fraction of a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159797224X
• ISBN13: 9781597972246
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"