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Four Fateful Elections

What if Lincoln had lost in 1860, or if Theodore Roosevelt had won in 1912? How did Franklin Roosevelt, in 1932, and Ronald Reagan, in 1980, emerge to lead a dispirited nation?

  • By David Herbert Donald
  • Smithsonian magazine, October 2004

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