The Right to Vote by Alexander Keyssar

The Right to Vote by Alexander Keyssar

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The classic, award-winning history of the cornerstone of American democracy, updated throughout and including a new chapter on voting rights since 2000.

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The Right to Vote by Alexander Keyssar

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. 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.
Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. 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. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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ISBN 13 9780465005024
ISBN 10 0465005020
Title The Right to Vote
Author Alexander Keyssar
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Basic Books
Year published 2009-06-30
Number of pages 494
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