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Michael holt will. At the professor university. He was educated at princeton and phd at Johns Hopkins university. For time off at Cambridge University yale, stanford, and other institutions, cold has other institutions, cold has, been at the University Since 1970 or. Hes written deeply about political history. For many years, his writing focus was on the years before the civil war. The political crisis of the 19 1950s,ese of the which he wrote about, has been used for political courses. , was the runner up for the lincoln prize and is notten described as just because of the 1296 pages. More recently, he has written about the construction the reconstruction following the war. Is by one vote the disputed president ial election of 1876 tells the story of americas closest president ial election, which perhaps coincidentally, had the highest percentage of eligible voters participating during any election, 81. 5 . Please welcome michael holt. [applause] michael thank you. It was tthe 1850s t
Contest of 2000. And its no coincidence, in fact, that three years after the 2000 lection, two new books about the election of 1876 appeared ith the 2000 contest clearly in mind. One was by a bitter democrat. Its title says it all. Braud of the century, rother ford b hey. The republicans had stolen elections before. The other interesting thing, lee, was former chief which was sort of subtle defeet or subtle degeese in. He went into deciding whether to settle the election of 1876. There were certainly parallels, sometimes eerie. In 1876, as in pho two. As in 2000, electoral votes were in dispute, including the electoral roets of florida but also the electoral votes of South Carolina and louisiana that were being disputed. In act, all three of those states ent contesting sets of electoral votes to washington to be counted. Now, theres emocratic electors and republican electors. In 2000, here were people who counted rutherford b. Hays as an. I was originally approached by editors of a new
Headquarters in new york. And anna edwards in london. How was jackson hole taken in the city . Na we are watching how this is playing out in the equity markets. Taken badly by the equity markets. Down. 3 . Down across the european session. I was fascinated with how they had to walk the line by saying, we dont have that many policy tools, but they have enough. Anna . Nextr joining us in the hour. Taylor italy will investigate whether fraud has anything to do with people who died in the earthquake. Contractors that broke building codes. And the country wants to make sure that organized crime does not get involved in the session. G the Authorities Say someone set fire to the crime lab in an in colombia, a permanent ceasefire has taken effect in a conflict that has lasted five decades. They are laying down their arms as part of the peace accord. To approve the agreement. Fighting in colombia has killed an estimated 520,000 people. Singapore has confirmed that residents have the zika virus.
With the stimulus package. If you look at eurodollar, it shows the angst they had. Tom i thought olivier borchard was brilliant, and what a bombshell. My word for the day is horizon. Mario draghi said we will go out beyond the horizon he was poetic. Toncine but when it came rates maybe he was less poetic. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra the latest republican president ial debate was missing something a namecalling and anger of the previous showdown. Front runner donald trump embrace the idea of party unity. I think, frankly, the republican establishment, or whatever you want to call it, should embrace what is happening. We are having millions of extra people join. We are going to beat the democrats. We are going to beat hillary or whoever it may be, and we are going to beat them soundly. Nejra trump is favored to win primaries next tuesday in florida and ohio. He is getting a surprise boost. Ben carson is expected to endorse him sometime today; meanwhile, ted