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During the latter half of 2024, with the United States amid unchartered waters, the Revised and Expanded Edition of Picking the President was assembled (like the first edition had been in 2017) to promote understanding of the Electoral College. To this end, Part I (“The First Edition of Picking the President”) consists of the first edition’s Preface, Introduction, and fourteen essays. Part II (“New Perspectives on the Electoral College”) unveils a new Prelude, a new Introduction, and fifteen new essays. Part III (“Resources”) features fifty items, including the complete debate on the subject at the Constitutional Convention, which illuminate the creation, ratification, and early evolution of the United States’ presidential election system. In providing an expansive view of the Electoral College, the Revised and Expanded Edition of Picking the President aims to promote understanding of this system as the United States heads still further into the unknown.
With new contributions by Robert M. Alexander, Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon, Gary Bugh, Eric Burin, Jane E. Calvert, Wilfred U. Codrington III, Heather Cox Richardson, George C. Edwards III, Mark Stephen Jendrysik, John P. Kaminski, Randall M. Miller, Jack N. Rakove, Michael T. Rogers, Paul Schumaker, Michael H. Taylor, and Rosemarie Zagarri.
Eric Burin is Professor of History at the University of North Dakota, author of Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society, and editor of the open-access anthology, Protesting on Bended Knee: Race, Dissent, and Patriotism in 21st Century America (2018).
ISBN
978-1-966360-03-2
Publication Date
2025
Publisher
The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota
City
Grand Forks, ND
Recommended Citation
Burin, Eric, "Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition" (2025). Digital Press Books. 32.
https://commons.und.edu/press-books/32
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