Their book included a thorough and scholarly presentation of the historical precedents upon which are based Lichtman's conclusions about the dynamics of presidential elections and about how outcomes can be predicted. My smaller, unscholarly book is a critique of contemporary political journalism. It's a critique, too, of the prevailing understanding of American politics among politicians, their advisers and the academics who advise the journalists. The critique grows out of Lichtman's work. However, there is much extrapolation here, too, and it has been cleared with nobody.
Disciples do go astray.
I would like to thank Al Gore for inventing the Internet. The use of this new medium seems somehow appropriate. We have here a book that is subversive of the interests of a lot of important people in the national media. Putting it out through a revolutionary channel that makes an end run around their gate-keeping powers works for me. I don't know that they would have been unwilling to see this stuff printed.