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| Title | : | The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465005020 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 494 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Excellent history and on current issues Excellent book by a first rate scholar who knows how to write for a general audience. He hits all the bases, good history, current issues, felons, ex felons, immigrants, the electoral college, the 2000 election etc. A book anyone and everyone should read. It is good to know Harvard has people like this teaching. Other good books and information on democracy and politics can be found here:mwir-democracyandpolitics.blogspot.com/M. Superbly Crafted There's a trick to writing a good history book. The trick is to not get bogged down in so much picayune detail that the book becomes a bore, while including enough detail to help the reader gain clear, authoritatively-based insight into exactly what happened and how. Fortunately, Keyssar understands this nuance. As a result, this book is engaging like few American histories I've read. At the same time, there is sufficient well-. Informative look at American Democracy One of the things that Americans take great pride in is the democratic nature of their country. Keyssar shows that this democratic nature took a long time to develop and that the concept of "universal" suffrage is really very recent.Supported by a lot of information (the supplementary materials make up around 25% of the book), Keyssar shows that American history is made up of lots of incidents of people trying to gain voting ri
The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.. Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.. Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. His 1986 book, Out of Work, was awarded three scholarly prizes, and his book, The Right to Vote, was named the best book in U.S. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School o
These large background shifts outline the tortured ebb and flow of suffrage: the post-Civil War enfranchisement of blacks and its rollback, the 70-year struggle for women's suffrage, the restoration of black voting rights in the 1960s. Duke historian Keyssar (Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts) convincingly shows that, though distinctive in some ways, the evolution of the franchise in America is similar to that in other countries: highly contested, with retreats as well as advances, containing within it the sharp reflections of larger struggles for power. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. This is a masterful historical account of a complex, co
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