On October 13, at noon, the CATO Institute holds a free forum with two authors, both of whom have recently written books on ballot access. The featured authors are Theresa Amato, author of Grand Illusion: the Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny, and James T. Bennett, author of Not Invited to the Party, How Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold. Bennett’s book is not yet in bookstores, but will be soon.
See here for more information. Attendees must register. CATO is at 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC 20001.
They should have invited Darcy G. Richardson also!
By the way, if any of you reading this have not yet purchased and read Darcy’s “A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign”; you should do so promptly. It is one of the three best books on that subject that I have ever read. The other two are: “Miami and the Siege of Chicago,” by the late, great Norman Mailer; and “The Making of the President 1968” by the late, great Theodore H. White. If you read those three books, along with Mr. Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” (about the 1967 March on the Pentagon), you will be getting some of the most important information about the history of the modern United States (from the late 50’s to the present).
They also should have included J. David Gillespie. I forgot to mention that in the message above. Dr. Gillespie wrote the book, “Politics at the Periphery: Third Parties in Two-Party America” – another must read book!
Actually, to fully explore this topic CATO should have also invited our country’s leading expert, Richard Winger, to moderate and give commentary.
You are so right, “ken in st I, mo.” Perhaps Darcy Richardson, Michael Richardson, and J. David Gillespie could have been co-moderators.
Oh, yes: Lenora Fulani also! She knows tons about the subject, learned on the streets as well as the academic halls.