In 1960, attitudes were changing; barriers were falling. It was a transitional year, during which the world as we know it today was beginning to take shape. While other books have focused on the presidential contest between Kennedy and Nixon, "A New World to Be Won: John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and the Tumultuous Year of 1960" illuminates the emerging forces that would transform the nation and the world during the 1960s, putting the election in the broader context of American history--and world history as well.

While the author does devote a large portion of this book to the 1960...

"Counting the Votes: A New Way to Analyze America's Presidential Elections" isn't your typical history book about presidential elections. Nor is it like most statistical analyses of election results. What this unusual book does offer is an array of innovative statistics--campaign score (CS), potential index (PI), return on potential (ROP), and equalized vote totals (EV*EQ), among others--that provides a provocative, intriguing, and fresh perspective on past presidential candidates and campaigns.

Presenting information that has never been compiled and presented before, author G. Scott...