American presidential elections, 1796-present
1. 
The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" Changed Presidential Elections Forever
by:
Ronald G. Shafer
3.92 avg rating — 120 ratings 2. 
1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election amid the Storm
by:
Susan Dunn
4.16 avg rating — 300 ratings 3. 
The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America
by:
Aram Goudsouzian
4.18 avg rating — 33 ratings 
5. 
The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election
by:
W.J. Rorabaugh
3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings 6. 
The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
by:
Stephen Kendrick
4.30 avg rating — 398 ratings 8. 
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800
by:
John Ferling
3.97 avg rating — 2,694 ratings 8. 
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It
by:
Mark Bowden
4.13 avg rating — 796 ratings 10. 
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.85 avg rating — 1,025 ratings 
12. 
America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800 3.92 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States
by:
Edward B. Foley
4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings 14. 
The Deadlocked Election of 1800: Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know 3.95 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Politics of Corruption: The Election of 1824 and the Making of Presidents in Jacksonian America
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David P Callahan
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 17. 
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics 4.41 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
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Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System
by:
Donald B. Cole
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings 19. 
The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
by:
Karl Rove
3.59 avg rating — 664 ratings 21. 
The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 3.69 avg rating — 406 ratings
22. 
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
by:
Malcolm W. Nance
4.08 avg rating — 1,862 ratings 24. 
Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox: The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation
by:
Richard J. Ellis
4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings 24. 
The Battle for Florida: An Annotated Compendium of Materials from the 2000 Presidential Election it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
26. 
Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Frémont and the Violent Election of 1856
by:
John Bicknell
3.70 avg rating — 66 ratings 27. 
Party over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848
by:
Joel H. Silbey
3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings 27. 
America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed a Nation
by:
John Bicknell
3.93 avg rating — 101 ratings 29. 
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by:
Michael Isikoff
4.20 avg rating — 6,660 ratings 31. 
The Election of 1860: "A Campaign Fraught with Consequences"
by:
Michael F. Holt
3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings 31. 
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Votes of Confidence: A Young Person's Guide to American Elections
by:
Jeff Fleischer
4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings 
34. 
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
by:
Rebecca Traister
4.18 avg rating — 1,766 ratings 36. 
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War 3.98 avg rating — 385 ratings
36. 
Blue Smoke and Mirrors: How Reagan Won and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980
by:
Jack W. Germond
3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings 
38. 
October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan
by:
Gary G. Sick
3.82 avg rating — 77 ratings 40. 
The Election of 1860 Reconsidered (Civil War in the North)
by:
A. James Fuller
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 40. 
Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow!: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History
by:
Jeff Greenfield
3.68 avg rating — 50 ratings 42. 
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
by:
John C. Waugh
3.96 avg rating — 138 ratings 42. 
Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield 4.14 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
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The election of 1868: The Democratic effort to regain control, (Studies in history, economics, and public law, no. 392) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown
by:
Richard L. Hasen
3.80 avg rating — 83 ratings 46. 
By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876
by:
Michael F. Holt
3.59 avg rating — 49 ratings 46. 
48. 
Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
by:
Roy Morris Jr.
3.67 avg rating — 522 ratings 48. 
50. 
Vote First or Die: The New Hampshire Primary: America’s Discerning, Magnificent, and Absurd Road to the White House
by:
Scott Conroy
3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings 52. 
The politics of inertia;: The election of 1876 and the end of Reconstruction 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
52. 
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
by:
Jesse Wegman
4.26 avg rating — 1,254 ratings 
54. 
Clean for Gene: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential Campaign
by:
George Rising
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
59. 
Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
59. 
MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution
by:
Roger Stone
3.70 avg rating — 453 ratings 61. 
Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896
by:
R. Hal Williams
3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings 61. 
Right from the start;: A chronicle of the McGovern campaign
by:
Gary Hart
4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings 
65. 
They Said This Day Would Never Come: Chasing the Dream on Obama's Improbable Campaign 4.39 avg rating — 230 ratings
67. 
Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics
by:
Lewis L. Gould
3.70 avg rating — 76 ratings 67. 
The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign
by:
Thomas Oliphant
4.07 avg rating — 399 ratings 69. 
69. 
Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, And The Campaign Of 1912
by:
Gerard Helferich
3.80 avg rating — 194 ratings 71. 
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -- The Election that Changed the Country
by:
James Chace
3.79 avg rating — 764 ratings 71. 
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail
by:
Charles Osgood
3.13 avg rating — 157 ratings 73. 
The First Modern Clash over Federal Power: Wilson versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916
by:
Lewis L. Gould
3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings 73. 
77.
Road to Normalcy: The Presidential Campaign & Election of 1920 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
77. 
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
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Thurston Clarke
4.28 avg rating — 3,742 ratings 79. 
The High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings
79. 
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
by:
Katy Tur
3.96 avg rating — 17,465 ratings 
81. 
Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide Victory and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal
by:
David Pietrusza
4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings 83.
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Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
by:
C. Vann Woodward
3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings 
85. 
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?: The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988
by:
Jack W. Germond
3.76 avg rating — 59 ratings 
89. 
Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War
by:
Richard Moe
4.07 avg rating — 83 ratings 89. 
Wake Us When It's over: Presidential Politics of 1984
by:
Jack W. Germond
3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings 
92. 
Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
by:
A.J. Baime
4.45 avg rating — 767 ratings 93. 
The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
by:
Zachary Karabell
3.92 avg rating — 90 ratings 94. 
Truman's Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America
by:
Andrew E. Busch
3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 94.
Selling the President, 1920: Albert D. Lasker, Advertising, and the Election of Warren G. Harding
by:
John A. Morello
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 96. 
The Upset That Wasn't: Harry S. Truman and the Crucial Election of 1948
by:
Harold I. Gullan
2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings 97. 
98. 
When America Liked Ike: How Moderates Won the 1952 Presidential Election and Reshaped American Politics
by:
Gary A Donaldson
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 99. 
The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
