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The Right to Vote the Contested History of Democracy in the United States
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The Right to Vote the Contested History of Democracy in the United States Paperback - 2001

by Alexander Keyssar


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Most Americans take for granted their right to vote, whether they choose to exercise it or not. But the history of suffrage in the U.S. is, in fact, the story of a struggle to achieve this right by our society's marginalized groups. In The Right to Vote, Duke historian Alexander Keyssar explores the evolution of suffrage over the course of the nation's history. Examining the many features of the history of the right to vote in the U.S.--class, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, and age--the book explores the conditions under which American democracy has expanded and contracted over the years.Keyssar presents convincing evidence that the history of the right to vote has not been one of a steady history of expansion and increasing inclusion, noting that voting rights contracted substantially in the U.S. between 1850 and 1920. Keyssar also presents a controversial thesis: that the primary factor promoting the expansion of the suffrage has been war and the primary factors promoting contraction or delaying expansion have been class tension and class conflict.

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AT ITS BIRTH, THE UNITED STATES WAS NOT a democratic nation-far from it.

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  • Title The Right to Vote the Contested History of Democracy in the United States
  • Author Alexander Keyssar
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date August 7, 2001
  • ISBN 9780465029693 / 0465029698
  • Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.08 x 0.97 in (22.86 x 15.44 x 2.46 cm)
  • Reading level 1580
  • Library of Congress subjects Voting - United States - History, Suffrage - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00034299
  • Dewey Decimal Code 324.620

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Alexander Keyssar is Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. He is the author of Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (A New York Times Notable Book for 1986) and has written essays and reviews for The Nation, Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, The New Republic, and a host of other popular and academic publications.
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