PLUS ONE:

Expert's Picks: What we should be reading: A presidential historian chooses the most revealing books about the American election process. (Michael Beschloss, September 26, 2004, Washington Post)

Today presidential campaigns are covered so intensively that it is difficult for any contemporary author to show them in fresh and surprising dimensions. Here, however, are four works published during the last half-century that come close to transforming the experience into art.

Mr. Beschloss leaves out one of not just the best election books but the very best in William F. Buckley's massive oeuvre: The Unmaking of a Mayor.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 6, 2004 10:23 PM