Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-7425-0836-1 • Paperback • April 2001 • $43.00 • (£33.00)
978-0-585-37935-7 • eBook • May 2002 • $40.50 • (£31.00)
James W. Ceaser is professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, is author of numerous works including, with Andrew Busch, Upside Down and Inside Out: The 1992 Elections and American Politics and Losing To Win: The 1996 Elections and American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield). Andrew E. Busch is associate professor of political science at the University of Denver.
Chapter 1 Prologue: Election Eve, 2000
Chapter 2 The Politics of the Perfect Tie
Chapter 3 The Invisible Primary: The Marathon Begins
Chapter 4 The Party Nomination: The Three-Way Race
Chapter 5 The Interregnum: The Four Faces of Al Gore
Chapter 6 The Final Election Campaign: Roller Coaster
Chapter 7 The Post-election Campaign: Bush versus Gore
Chapter 8 Congressional and State Elections
Chapter 9 Electoral Reform
Chapter 10 Appendix: Presidential Vote by State, 2000
The Lewis and Clark of American elections have returned with the first thoughtful account of the 2000 contest, and their reporting is eye-opening, indeed indispensable.....
— Charles R Kesler
If you want to understand why we had this razor-thin election for president in 2000, this is the book for you. Well-written, serious, yet lively in tone, it tells a fascinating story of a national coin toss that came up neither heads nor tails, but instead showed a coin standing on edge—keeping the nation on edge with it for many weeks after election day....
— Bernard Grofman
The extraordinary election of 2000 deserves a first-rate narrative and analysis. This is it. There won't be a better one.....
— William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard
Ceaser and Busch have written another clever and insightful account of a national election. The Perfect Tie offers a perfect road map for investigating the closest and most controversial contest in more than a century.....
— John Green
James Ceaser and Andrew Busch provide the first comprehensive scholarly account of the epic 2000 election. Drawing on their own rich knowledge of political history and the full resources of current political science, they achieve insights and analysis that are deep as well as broad. In clear and literate style, they thoughtfully examine both process and substance from pre-primary preparations to post-election proposals for electoral reform....
— A James Reichley, Senior Fellow; Georgetown University; author of The Life of the Parties