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The Once and Future President: Past presidential primaries, elections and their impact: Overviews of past electoral politics.
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Title: Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush
Author: Boller, Paul F.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2004)
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0195167155
Call Number: 324.973 B638p2
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult.
Notes: An historical overview of past presidential campaigns.

 
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Title: 36 Days : the Complete Chronicle of the 2000 Presidential Election Crisis
Author: Brinkley, Douglas
Publisher: Times Books (2001)
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 0805068503
Call Number: 324.973 T349s
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult.
Notes: Day-by-day record of events during the presidential election standoff of 2000, put together by the staff of the New York Times.

 
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Title: Reagan's Victory : the Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right
Author: Busch, Andrew
Publisher: University Press of Kansas (2005)
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 0700614079
Call Number: 324.973 R228b
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult.
Notes: Concise and informative analysis of the election of 1980.

 
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Title: Running on Race : Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns, 1960-2000
Author: Mayer, Jeremy D.
Publisher: Random House (2002)
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 037550625X
Call Number: 324.973 M452r
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult.
Notes: Discusses race in each presidential election of the last 40 years.

 
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Title: Fraud of the Century : Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
Author: Morris, Roy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster (2003)
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 0743223861
Call Number: 324.973 H328m
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult.
Notes: Although Tilden received many more popular votes than Hayes, he still needed one more electoral vote to win. Hayes was declared the winner despite contested returns in Republican-controlled southern states.

 
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Title: Centennial Crisis : the Disputed Election of 1876
Author: Rehnquist, William H.
Publisher: Random House (2004)
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 0375413871
Call Number: 324.973 R269c
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult.
Notes: The former chief justice on the Supreme Court writes about this disputed election.

 
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Title: The Race to 270 : the Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004
Author: Shaw, Daron R.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2006)
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780226751337
Call Number: 324.973 SH26R
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult.
Notes: Shaw worked as a strategist on both Bush/Cheney campaigns. This is his view of how those races were won.

 
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Title: Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics
Author: Walters, Ronald W.
Publisher: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers (2005)
ISBN: 0742538370
Call Number: 324.6208 W171f
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult.
Notes: The impact of the African-American vote on past presidential elections.

 
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Title: Campaigns : a Century of Presidential Races From the Photo Archives of the New York Times
Author: Widmer, Edward L.
Publisher: DK Publishing (2001)
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0789471353
Call Number: 324.973 W634c
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Adult/ Children.
Notes: Historical photos of past presidential races.