The Elections of 2016

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Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College and a senior fellow at the University of Virginias Miller Center. A former editor of the Washington Monthly his most recent books include Trumps First Year (2018); The Elections of 2016 (2018); The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents (2019); The American Presidency: Origins and Development (with Sidney M. Milkis 2011); and Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking (with Russell B. Riley 2011). Nelson has contributed to numerous journals including the Journal of Policy History Journal of Politics and Political Science Quarterly. He also has written multiple articles on subjects as varied as baseball Frank Sinatra and C. S. Lewis. More than fifty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science history and English composition.  His 2014 book Resilient America: Electing Nixon Channeling Dissent and Dividing Government won the American Political Science Associations Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency published that year; and his 2006 book with John Lyman Mason How the South Joined the Gambling Nation won the Southern Political Science Associations V.O. Key Award.