Who recommended Let the People Pick the President?

2 people have recommended Let the People Pick the President in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Ezra Klein and Chris Fralic. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Let the People Pick the President worth reading?

2 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a high-school civics teacher planning a unit on American elections who needs narrative history and concrete examples to prompt classroom debate and student research projects; a state legislator or legislative staffer weighing electoral reform options who wants context on constitutional hooks, historical attempts at change, and likely political obstacles; a community organizer preparing to lobby local officials or run a town-hall session who needs historical framing and clear talking points to explain why the current system produces odd outcomes. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when long passages dig into dense legal-history and repeated case detail that slow the narrative; annoying if you prefer strictly neutral accounts — the prose argues for reform and keeps circling back to the same examples; not for readers seeking a short, neutral primer or a practical, step-by-step activist manual focused on campaigning tactics.

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Let the People Pick the President: Recommended by 2 People

Name: Let the People Pick the President
Author: Jesse Wegman

"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy." —Donald TrumpThe framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of...