The Unfinished Election of 2000gathers America's leading historians, political scientists, and constitutional lawyers to examine the strange and unprecedented events of the 2000 election. Together, these essays offer an election book very different from the ones we are too familiar with: not a journalistic account of campaigning and media strategy but a reflective assessment of the strangest election in modern American history.

Jack N. Rakove is the Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University and lives in Palo Alto, California.

Pamela S. Karlanis Montgomery Professor of Public Law at Stanford Law School and lives in Palo Alto.

Larry Krameris Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and lives in New York City.

Alex Keyssaris Matthew G. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stephen Holmesis Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and lives in New York City.

Henry Bradyis Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in Oakland, California.

John Cooperis Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.