Predicting the Next President - The Keys to the White House, 2024

In the updated 2024 edition of this classic text, Lichtman applies the keys to every presidential election since 1860 and shows readers the current state of the 2024 race. In doing so, he dispels much of the mystery behind electoral politics and challenges many traditional assumptions. An indispensable resource for political junkies!

List of contents

Introduction
1 Logic of the Keys: How Presidential Elections Really Work
2 Turning the Keys to the Presidency
3 Civil War and Reconstruction
4 The Gilded Age
5 Rise and Fall of Progressivism
6 Depression, War, and Cold War
7 New Directions, War, and Scandal
8 Reagan and Beyond
9 A False Dawn for Democrats: 1996-2004
10 The Winds of Political Change
11 Stability in the White House: 2012
12 2016-2020: America's Trumped-Up Politics
13 Biden's Redux at 81?
14 Lessons of the Keys: Toward a New Presidential Politics
Notes
Index
About the Author

About the author

Allan J. Lichtman teaches history at American University in Washington, D.C. He is a regular political analyst for CNN Headline News and also provides political commentary for national networks and newspapers. He is the author of White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement.

He has published more than one hundred scholarly and popular articles that have appeared in such
journals and newspapers as the American Historical Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, New Republic, Washington Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Los Angeles Times.

Product details

• Authors: Allan J Lichtman, Lichtman Allan J.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9798881800710
• ISBN: 979-8-8818-0071-0
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, Political structure & processes, United States of America, USA, Political campaigning & advertising, Elections & referenda, Central / national / federal government, Central government