Congressional Quarterly's National Party Elections, 1831-1976 (1979); Gary C. Byrne and Paul Marx, The Great American Convention (1976); James S. Chase, Emergence of the Presidential Nominating Convention (1973); Herbert Eaton, Presidential Timber: A History of Nomination Conventions (1964). See also articles by Sean Wilentz in the New Republic, Aug. 19 and 26, 1996; and Alan Brinkley in The New Yorker, Aug. 12, 1996.