this what about the election of 1896 your we are with ranjit arab and editor in chief michael briggs. they want to tell me about the election sure you have? >> sure. it's part of our presidential election series. what we do is we take a look at pivotal presidential elections. some of the more famous ones like 1984 waddled reagan's, you know, i should in the conservative era in politics. and some of the lesser-known ones. take for example, this election, 1898 weather was a lot of real i'm it and set precedent or how parties sort of reconfigured the electorate and their favorite. >> where did this idea come from? i'll ask michael that question. you're off to another series, a legal series here and you would think about these books come to the office. t. want to discuss how this series came together and have a two of them are working out for you? >> a legal series got its start back in early 1990s with the conversation we had an academic conference with peter charles hoffer who is coeditor of the series. we both had wanted to develop a series focused on major legal cases in american hist