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America's founders feared a president like Donald Trump. Through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they erected a fortified but constrained government to secure the benchmarks of our democracy and established the guardrails designed to protect it. But Trump pushed almost every one of the Framers' safeguards to its limit?most held, but some broke under the weight of presidential abuses even the Framers did not foresee. Thirteen Cracks wi...

In the days after Donald Trump's unexpected victory on election night 2016, The New York Times, CNN, and other leading media outlets reached out to one of the few pundits who had correctly predicted the outcome, Allan J. Lichtman. While many election forecasters base their findings exclusively on public opinion polls, Lichtman looks at the underlying fundamentals that have driven every presidential election since 1860. His 13 keys Using his 13...

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Americans have died for the right to vote, yet our democratic system guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. Allan Lichtman calls attention to the founders' greatest error--leaving the franchise to the discretion of individual states--and explains why it has triggered an unending struggle over voting rights.

A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment as the only way to control gun violence in America.

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Americans have died for the right to vote. Yet our democratic system guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. Allan Lichtman calls attention to the founders' greatest error-leaving the franchise to the discretion of individual states-and explains why it has triggered an unending struggle over voting rights.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General

The case for impeaching the 45th president of the United States—updated with new material and a new introductionIn the fall of 2016, Allan J. Lichtman—the Distinguished Professor of History at American University who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential outcomes—made headlines when he predicted that Donald J. Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton to win the presidency. In this timely, considered volume written in clear, nonpartis...

Professor Lichtman has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential elections, and here makes the case for impeaching the 45th, Donald J. Trump. Looks at past impeachments, too.

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Prominent political analyst and historian Lichtman presents thirteen historical factors, or 'keys' that have successfully predicted the outcome of presidential elections from 1860 to 2004. Read this book not only for a surprising look at the electoral process, but also for tips on calling the election in 2008.

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Combining statistical analysis with well-written narrative history, this re-evaluation of the 1928 presidential election gives a vivid portrait of the candidates and the campaign. Lichtman has based his study primarily on a statistical analysis of data from that election and the presidential elections from 1916 to 1940 for all the 2, 058 counties outside the former Confederate South. Not relying exclusively on the results of his quantitative a...