But no one, at least in recent years, has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman does in Let the People Pick the President. Nicholas Kristoff People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School Jesse Wegman is a shrewd analyst, brilliant researcher and passionate writer, and here he tackles an issue important to our systems legitimacy.

Wegman makes a compelling case that we must act now-and he explains what to do. Its not too late to rescue our democracy from destruction. Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello Jesse Wegmans urgent and ultimately irrefutable call to action is the most readable and fully informed explanation of how the Electoral College is wrecking Americas great experiment in government of, by, and for the people. This timely and erudite work should interest all who are interested in the future of the United States. Review Quotes Was it a mistake to create the Electoral College? Jesse Wegman argues that it was. In Let the People Pick the President he shows how we can at long last make every vote in the United States count-and restore belief in our democratic system. Isnt it time to let the people pick the president? In this thoroughly researched and engaging call to arms, Supreme Court journalist and New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman draws upon the history of the founding era, as well as information gleaned from campaign managers, field directors, and other officials from twenty-first-century Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, to make a powerful case for abolishing the antiquated and antidemocratic Electoral College. How can we tolerate the Electoral College when every vote does not count the same, and the candidate who gets the most votes can lose? Now, with political passions at a boiling point, the message from the American people is clear: The way we vote for the only official whose job it is to represent all Americans is neither fair nor just. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times.

The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Josh Chafetz, New York Times Book Review Now in paperback: an ironclad argument for eliminating the Electoral College. But no one has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman. Book Synopsis People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning.

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