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Blood in the Ballot Box: The History of Political Violence in America

Blood in the Ballot Box: The History of Political Violence in America

Gross, D. M.

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CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral United States History

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ISBN13: 9798232002985
Publisher: Dustin Gross
Published: Sep 11 2025
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

American civic myth promises peaceful politics. History begs to differ.
In Blood in the Ballot Box, historian-author D. M. Gross traces a stark through-line from colonial conquest and tar-and-feather rituals to lynchings, labor wars, assassinations, terrorism, and twenty-first-century extremism. The book distinguishes state and non-state violence, symbolic and strategic force, and the public theatrics that have policed who counts as the people. From the Boston Massacre to the caning of Charles Sumner, from Indian Removal to Jim Crow and COINTELPRO, from Oklahoma City to present-day polarization, Gross shows how violence has shaped elections, law, and national identity.

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