CSPAN2 Book TV In Depth July 2, 2012
>> host: david pietrusza. what was it about the presidential elections that made you write books about them? >> guest: it all starts one step at a time, and the 1920 election, i had been playing around with factoids and just about presidents, and presidential elections, and i looked at that one, and i started calculating the math and it was like 1961, you had really -- or 64, you had one president, lyndon johnson, and mostly you would get three. you would get kennedy and nixon in 1960, and '68, you'd get nixon, and you would get reagan. so you might get three. usually get two 1920, y...