Globe Pequot / Prometheus
Pages: 120
Trim: 5¾ x 8½
978-1-63388-658-2 • Paperback • September 2020 • $15.95 • (£11.99)
978-1-63388-659-9 • eBook • September 2020 • $15.00 • (£11.99)
Bill Petrocelli is the co-owner with his wife, Elaine, of the nationally renowned bookstore Book Passage with stores in California in Corte Madera, Sausalito, and at the Ferry Building in San Francisco.
Bill attended Oakland Public Schools and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the U.C. Law School. In addition to several years in private practice, he served as a California Deputy Attorney General and as the head of a poverty law office in Oakland, California. He served on the Board of the American Booksellers Association and as attorney for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, in which he successfully pursued a major price-discrimination suit against publishers. Recently, he was the plaintiff in a First Amendment case challenging a California law that threatened to interfere with the distribution of autographed books.
“Who is president of the United States matters. Five times in our history, the will of the people has been thwarted. The elections of 1824, 1876, 1888. 2000 and 2016 offer us the lesson that the time has come to consider the implications of the Electoral College with great care. Bill Petrocelli has explained this antiquated flaw in the American system with clarity and directness. We dare not ignore his call to action!”
-John F. Rothmann, Radio Talk Show Host, KGO 810 AM San Francisco
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“There’s work to be done to change the Electoral system, and the place to start is with this book.”—former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer
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