The New Hampshire Primary And The American Electoral Process

This study examines the peculiar role and history of the New Hampshire Primary in American presidential politics during the 1996 election. The work reviews the history of the Primary, analyzes the media coverage and provides a study of the phenomenon of momentum. Review: ?Palmer's book offers the first significant look at its subject since the publication of Charles Brereton's First in the Nation: New Hampshire and the Premiere Presidential Primary in 1987 and Dayton Duncan's Grass Roots: One Year in the Life of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary in 1991.

Neither of these works, however, approaches Palmer's depth of analysis or breadth of contextualization....Palmer has written a well argued and highly readable book that will be of great interest to scholars of the American political scene and especially to anyone who has participated in a New Hampshire primary campaign.?-The New England Quarterly