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Honored that ‪@gliamericanhistory.bsky.social‬ invited me to write a brief essay on the Electoral College for its online journal, History Now.
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Proud and grateful to work with the open-access Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.

PICKING THE PRESIDENT: THE DIGITAL PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA. Scores of individuals and institutions helped bring the Revised and Expanded Edition to fruition. Another grateful h/t to all who made it possible, especially The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.

PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART III (“RESOURCES”). Part III 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.

PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART II (“NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE”). The Revised and Expanded Edition of Picking the President unveils fifteen new essays. A summary of them follows.

PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART II (“THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IN THE AMERICAN MIND”). In September 2024, I conducted a nationwide study on the Electoral College. The questionnaire is included in book & the study’s aggregate results are posted on the UND Scholarly Commons: commons.und.edu/data/32/.

PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART II (INTRODUCTION: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE). In my new 5,500-word Introduction, I aimed to lucidly explain this complex subject in a narrative format—to tell the Electoral College’s story as a thought-provoking, engaging, and momentous tale.

PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART I (“THE FIRST EDITION OF PICKING THE PRESIDENT”). We expected to include the first edition’s essays in the Revised and Expanded Edition. Bill Caraher’s suggestion to also include its Preface and Introduction enhanced the book’s transparency, distinctiveness, and utility.

Honored, grateful, and proud to have The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota publish Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition.
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PICKING THE PRESIDENT: REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION. With gratitude, I present Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. The 434-page anthology is available as a free digital download and as a low-cost paperback (see links below).

I just bought 100 brand new ISBNs and I'm looking for books to put them on.

Got ideas? Interested in publishing with a small, cooperative, OA "nano-press"? Want to stick it to Big Academic Publishing?

Maybe we can work together!

If you're interested in the Electoral College or (for educators) discuss it in your courses, please permit me to suggest checking out my "commentary" on the subject. It examines the past, present, and future of the Electoral College.

Grateful to the ND Monitor for publishing my essay on the Electoral College (it explains why the national popular vote option failed at the Constitutional Convention, why the EC was adopted, & offers a glimpse of a national study/survey I oversaw in Sept. '24).
northdakotamonitor.com/2024/10/31/t...

While we're working on the second edition of _Picking the President_, check out the the first edition, which in 2017 went from conception to publication in five weeks and since then has proved the little book that could.

For Constitution Day, here's a Special Preview of the forthcoming 2nd edition of the Picking the President. This "sneak peek" features nearly three dozen resources that illuminate the creation, ratification, and evolution of the "Electoral College." It's free to download, as will be the full volume.

This makes me smile.