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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present

The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present

Lichtman, Allan J.

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral United States HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0674244818
ISBN13: 9780674244818
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Feb 18 2020
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A sweeping look at the history of voting rights in the U.S.--Vox

Who has the right to vote? And who benefits from exclusion?

For most of American history, the right to vote has been a privilege restricted by wealth, sex, race, and literacy. Economic qualifications were finally eliminated in the nineteenth century, but the ideal of a white man's republic persisted long after that. Women and racial minorities had to fight hard and creatively to secure their voice, but voter identification laws, registration requirements, and voter purges continue to prevent millions of American citizens from voting.

An award-winning historian and voting right activist, Allan Lichtman gives us the history behind today's headlines. He shows that political gerrymandering and outrageous attempts at voter suppression have been a fixture of American democracy--but so have efforts to fight back and ensure that every citizen's voice be heard.

Lichtman uses history to contextualize the fix we're in today. Each party gropes for advantage by fiddling with the franchise... Growing outrage, he thinks, could ignite demands for change. With luck, this fine history might just help to fan the flame.

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